LIFE ORIENTED CURRICULUM

Presented by
ANJU SB
Biological Science
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.
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.
LIFE CENTERED CURRICULUM GIVE
IMPORTANCE ON
 Child Centered Education
 Society Centered Education

 Preservation, promotion and transmission of culture

 Teaching of science
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

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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
 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.

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.