LIFE ORIENTED CURRICULUM

Submitted by: FOUSIA F

LIFE ORIENTED CURRICULUM
 Life-oriented curriculum is the one in which
learning experiences are selected and integrated
so as to promote the development of whole
personality of pupils viz. attempting to improve
students intellectual, social, physical, emotional
and psycho motor development.

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MEANING AND DEFINITION

 Life Orientation is the study of the self in

relation to others and to society.
 Life orientation has been defined in the National
Curriculum as a holistic study of the self, the self
in society, an opportunity to develop the
emotional side of young people, the citizenship
aspects of life.

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LIFE CENTERED CURRICULUM GIVE
IMPORTANCE ON

 Child Centered Education

 Society Centered Education

 Preservation, promotion and transmission of

culture
 Teaching of science

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FIELDS OF LIFE-ORIENTED CURRICULUM
According to Hilda Taba ,
1. Taking care of health and personal life
2. Nurturing a happy family
3. Leading a good life
4. Adopting spiritual values
5. Developing aesthetic skills
6. Getting educated
7. Living amicably with family members and
society
8. Spending leisure time productively
9. Developing skills to improve one’s
economic status
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Psychologist Stratemeyer says three types of life
situations are indispensable for life centred
curriculum. They are
1. Those meant for the development of individual
capacities
2. Those meant for growth in social participation

3. Those meant for growth in ability to face the

challenges posed by the environment.

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IMPORTANT FEATURES OF LIFE ORIENTED
CURRICULUM

1. Social transformation
2. Outcomes – based education
3. High level of knowledge and skills
4. Integration of subjects and applied competencies
5. Progression of knowledge and skills
6. Articulation and portability
7. Nurturing human rights, inclusivity,
environmental care and social justice
8. Valuing indigenous knowledge systems
9. Credibility, quality and efficiency

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1.SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION
 Remove the social disparities in education and
ensuring that equal opportunities are provided to
all sections of the society.
 The object of life oriented education is to help
students to develop their inherent potentials.

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2. OUTCOMES-BASED EDUCATION
Outcomes based education is the foundation for life
oriented curriculum.
By promoting outcomes based education which is
an aspect of life oriented curriculum, students are
expected to have the following educational
achievements.
1. Identifying problems and finding out suitable
solution making appropriate decisions using critical
and creative thinking.
2. Working efficiently with others as members of a
team, group, organization and community.
3. Planning properly the activities that are to be
undertaken, implementing them efficiently and
responsibly managing them.

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4.Collecting appropriate information, analyze,
organize and critically evaluate them.
5. Communicating with others effectively using
gestures and language skills.
6. Using science and technology to a great extent in
one’s own activities understanding and behaving
responsibly in matters of health and environmental
care.
7. Reflecting upon and using various strategies to
learn effectively.

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3. HIGH LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE AND
SKILLS

 Life oriented curriculum tries to develop high

level of knowledge and practical skills in
learners.
 It indicates the higher goals to be achieved by
each student.
 By nurturing social justice, it shows more care
and concern to develop knowledge and skills in
the people of the marginalized sections of the
society.

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4.INTEGRATION OF SUBJECTS AND APPLIED
COMPETENCE

 Life oriented curriculum gives importance for the

integration within and across subjects and
disciplines.
 Only by integrating subjects and disciplines
applied competence could be achieved.

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 5. PROGRESSION OF KNOWLEDGE AND
SKILLS

 By explicitly stating the expected learning

outcomes at each level of education, curriculum
for the successive levels of education to achieve
advanced levels of knowledge and skills could be
formulated. Life oriented curriculum follows such
an approach.

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6.ARTICULATION AND PORTABILITY
 Articulation refers to the relationship that exists
among the different parts of the curriculum for a
particular standard or grade.
 Arranging the subject content sequentially in
such a way that there exists significant
correlation between those of a lower class or
grade and of the next higher class or grade is
called as Vertical Articulation or Continuity.

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7. NURTURING HUMAN RIGHTS, INCLUSIVITY,
ENVIRONMENTAL CARE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

 Life oriented curriculum attempts to promote

human rights, inclusion of all sections of the
people, care for the environment and upholding
social justice.
 Life oriented curriculum, the intellectual, social,
spiritual and physical needs of all learners will be
addressed through the design and development of
learning programmes and through the use of
appropriate assessment tools and techniques.

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 8.VALUING INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE
SYSTEMS
 Nowadays people have started recognizing different
systems of knowledge and using them in different
aspects of life and this trend is noticed all over the
world.
 Though allopathic system of medicine ( English
medicine) is quite popular in India at present, and
gained widespread acceptance, still the ancient
Indian systems of medicine like Ayurvedha, Siddha
and Unani are also hailed and relied upon by a
significant number of people in our society.
 Indigenous Knowledge system is the body of
knowledge evolved over thousands of years from the
philosophical thinking and social practices of people
of a particular culture.

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9.CREDIBILITY, QUALITY AND EFFICIENCY
 Life oriented curriculum tries to incorporate
necessary changes from time to time thereby
renewing itself and making it comparable to
those of other countries in quality, breadth and
depth.

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 Besides developing the skills needed for day to
day life such as
1. Information and communication skills
2. Inter personal skills
3. Self awareness skills
4. Skill of understanding the feeling of others
5. Creative thinking skills
6. Skill of critical thinking
7. Skill of making decisions
8. Problem solving skill
9. Skill of coping up with stress
10. Controlling emotions.
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CONCLUSION

 Developing the special skills and knowledge in a

particular subject discipline and developing
occupational skills to become self reliant are the
important aspects of life oriented curriculum.

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