Approaches to the school curriculum

Curriculum as a content or body of

knowledge

Reported by: Roel V Dalde Jr

 Approaches to the school
curriculum
• Curriculum can be approached or seen in
three ways. It can be defined as content , a
process or an outcome.
 Curriculum as a content or
body of knowledge
• It is quite common for traditionalist to equate
a curriculum to a topic outline, subject matter,
or concepts to be included in the syllabus or
books
 Curriculum as a content
The focus will be the body of knowledge
to be transmitted to student using
appropriate teaching method
 Four ways of presenting
the content in the curriculum
• 1. Topical approach
• 2. Concept approach
• 3. Thematic approach
• 4. Modular approach
 Topical approach
• Topical approach where much content is
based on knowledge and experiences are
include
 Concept approach
• Concept approach with fewer topics in cluster
around major and sub concept and their
interaction with relatedness emphasized
 Thematic approach
• Thematic approach as a combination of
concepts that develop conceptual structures
 Modular approach
• Modular approach that leads to complete
units of instruction
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