Fazaia College Of Education For Women, Sarwar Road Lahore

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Subject: Curriculum Development

Course: B.Ed. (Hons) V
Submitted To: Ms. Maria Arafat
Submitted By: Asma Badar
Session: 2021-2025
Ralph Tyler
Ralph Tyler (1902-1994) published more than 700 articles and sixteen books.
Best known for The Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction which is
based on an year study.
In this book Tyler presented the concept that curriculum should be:
Dynamic
A program
The Tyler Model
The Tyler Model is:
One of the best known models for curriculum development.
Known for the special attention it gives to the planning phases.
Deductive for it proceeds from the general (examining the needs of society,
for example) to the specific (specifying instructional objectives).
Tyler’s Four Fundamental Questions:
What educational purposes should the school seek to attain?
What educational learning experiences can be provided that are likely to attain
these purposes?
How can these educational experiences be effectively organized?
How can we determine whether these purposes are being attained?
Criticism of the Tyler Model:
Narrowly interpreted objectives (acceptable verbs).
Difficult and time consuming construction of behavioral objectives.
Curriculum restricted to a constricted range of student skills and knowledge.
Critical thinking, problem solving and value acquiring processes cannot be
plainly declared in behavioral objectives.
Hilda Taba Model:
Taba model is inductive approach.
Her model is teacher approach.
She believed that teachers are aware of the students’ needs hence they should
be the one to develop the curriculum.
Taba’s is the Grass-root approach.
The main idea to this approach is that the needs of the students are at the
forefont to the curriculum.
Steps in Taba model:
Diagnosis of learners needs and expectations of the larger society.
Formulation of learning objectives.
Selection of the learning content.
Organization of learning content.
Selection of the learning experiences.
Organization of learning activities.
Determine of what to evaluate and the means of doing it.
Application of Taba Model:
Taba Model is currently used in most curriculum design:
Identifying the needs of the students.
Developing objectives.
Selecting instructional method.
Organizing learning experiences.
Evaluating
Strength of Taba Model:
Uses the inductive method.
Teacher approach is used.
Notes that teachers are aware of the students’ needs therefore they are the ones
that should develop the curriculum.
Sees curriculum as a “plan for learning”
Give teachers a greater role by not just making them implementers of the
curriculum but also developers.
The Taba-Tyler Rationales
Tyler’s Model Taba’s Model
Deductive Inductive
Argues from the administrator approach Reflects the teacher’s approach
Believes that administrator should design the curriculum Believes that the teachers are aware of the students
and the teachers implement it. needs; hence teachers should be the ones to develop the
curriculum and implement in practice.

lays the main stress on aim, evaluation and control. Her rationale does not start with objectives, as she
believes that the demand for education in a particular
society should be studied first.

This approach may be perfect, perhaps, for market- Pays attention to the selection of the content and its
oriented education, but inadequate for the development organization with an aim to provide students with an
of responsible and creative individuals able to meet the opportunity to learn with comprehension.
challenges of the constantly changing circumstances.