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APPROACHES ABOUT
SCHOOL CURRICULUM
THREE WAYS OF APPROACHING A
CURRICULUM
Curriculum can be approached or seen in three ways.
It can be:
• Content
• Process
• Outcome
CURRICULUM AS A CONTENT OR
BODY OF KNOWLEDGE
• If curriculum is equated as content, then the focus will be the body
of knowledge to be transmitted to students using appropriate
teaching method.
• All curricula have content regardless of their design or models. The
fund of knowledge is the repository of accumulated discoveries and
inventions of man from the explorations of the earth and as products
of research.
THERE ARE FOUR WAYS OF PRESENTING THE
CONTENT IN THE CURRICULUM THESE ARE: