TRUE OR FALSE

1. Curriculum is a standards-based sequence of planned experiences

where students practice and achieve proficiency in content and
applied learning skills.
2. In discipline perspective, curriculum should be organized around the
core knowledge and modes of inquiry of a discipline.
3. The traditional perspective promotes the need to incorporate all
aspects of a student’s life in developing the curriculum he will learn.
4. The behavioral perspective promotes the setting of learning objectives
and the focusing of curriculum to meet the needs of students as they
acquire those objectives.
5. The constructivist perspective promotes the notion that educators
should devise curricula so that students may personalize their
learning.
“Education is a process, and
curriculum is the means to the
process”.
Curriculum
Perspectives
What is Curriculum?

 The term ‘curriculum’ is, etymologically, derived from the Latin

word “currere”.
 Curriculum is from Modern Latin, in which this term means ‘a
course of study”.
 What is Curriculum?

 Curriculum is a standards-based sequence of planned experiences

where students practice and achieve proficiency in content and applied
learning skills.
EmilAhangarzadeh
(2014) breaks down five
theoretical perspectives
on curriculum:
 The Traditional Perspective

The traditional perspective promotes a

return to the mastery of basic literacy
skills and the diffusion of common values
The Experiential Perspective

The experiential perspective

promotes the need to incorporate
all aspects of a student’s life in
developing the curriculum he will
learn.
Structure of the Disciplines

The disciplines perspective promotes the

development of intellectual capabilities by
focusing on the thought structures of given
content areas.
The Behavioral Perspective

The behavioral perspective promotes

the setting of learning objectives and
the focusing of curriculum to meet the
needs of students as they acquire
those objectives.
The Constructivist Perspective

The constructivist perspective

promotes the notion that educators
should devise curricula so that
students may personalize their
learning by reorganizing their thought
structures around what they learn in
school.
Identification.

 It promotes the need to incorporate all aspects of a student’s life in

developing the curriculum he will learn.
 Which curriculum perspective promotes the notion that educators should
devise curricula so that students may personalize their learning by
reorganizing their thought structures around what they learn in school?
 It promotes the setting of learning objectives and the focusing of
curriculum to meet the needs of students as they acquire those
objectives.
 What curriculum perspective promotes the development of intellectual
capabilities by focusing on the thought structures of given content
areas?
 Which perspective promotes a return to the mastery of basic literacy
skills and the diffusion of common values?