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Key Terminologies:

1. Model
2. Design
3. Approach
4. Learner
5. Subject
6. Problem
Approaches to
Curriculum
Designing
Reported By:

Vandom B. Gallardo, MPA

 Learning Outcomes
1. Differentiate curriculum design and approaches

2. Enumerate and identify types of curriculum design models and its

various subtypes
• Subject-centered Design
• Learner-centered Design
• Problem-centered Design

3. Enumerate and identify approaches to curriculum designing

• Child or Learner-Centered Approach
• Subject-Centered Approach
• Problem-Centered Approach
Types of Curriculum Design Models
1. Subject-Centered Design
• Focuses on the content of the curriculum
• Corresponds mostly to the textbook
• Aims for excellence in the subject matter
• It has various variations which are focused on
individual subject, specific discipline and a
combination of subjects or disciplines which is
broad field or interdisciplinary
Types of Curriculum Design Models
a. Subject Design
The traditional approach to teaching and
learning
The oldest and most familiar design for all
people
Learning is compartmentalized
The teacher becomes the dispenser of
knowledge and learners are simply the empty
vessel to receive the information from the
teacher
Types of Curriculum Design Models
b. Discipline Design
• Focuses on academic disciplines
• Primarily used in colleges than in elementary and
secondary education
• Specific knowledge learned through a method which
the scholars used to study the content of their fields
• This curriculum moves higher to a discipline when the
students are more mature and are already moving
towards their career path or disciplines as science,
mathematics, psychology, humanities, history and
others
Types of Curriculum Design Models
c. Correlation Design
• Links separate subject design from a core
to a variety of subjects to reduce
fragmentation
• Subjects are related to one another and
still maintain the identity of the subject
• To use this design, teachers should come
together and plan the lessons
cooperatively
Types of Curriculum Design Models
d. Broad Field Design/Interdisciplinary
• This was made to cure the
compartmentalization of the separate
subject and integrate the contents that are
related to each other
• It is sometimes called Holistic Curriculum
• It is similar to thematic design, where a
specific theme is identified, and all other
subject areas revolve around the theme
Types of Curriculum Design Models
2. Learner-Centered Design
• The learner is the center of the educative
process
• The emphasis is strong in elementary level
than in secondary and college level
• It has various examples such as child-
centered design, experience-centered
design and humanistic design
Types of Curriculum Design Models
a. Child-Centered Design
• Anchored on the needs and interests of
the child
• Learners interact with teachers and the
environment, thus there is a collaborative
effort on both sides to plan lessons, select
content and do activities together
• Learning is a product of a child’s
interaction with the environment
Types of Curriculum Design Models
b. Experience-centered Design
• Experiences of the learners become the starting
point of the curriculum because the interests
and needs of learners cannot be pre-planned
• Learners are made to choose from various
activities that the teacher provides
• Learners are empowered to shape their own
learning from different opportunities
• In a school where experience-curriculum is
provided, different learning centers are found,
time is flexible and children are free to make
options
Types of Curriculum Design Models
c. Humanistic Design
• Stresses the whole person and the integration of
thinking, feeling and doing
• Stresses the development of positive self-concept
and interpersonal skills
• It considers the cognitive, affective and
psychomotor domains to be interconnected and
must be addressed in the curriculum
• The development of self is the ultimate objective
of learning
Types of Curriculum Design Models
3. Problem-Centered Design
• Deals with the social problems, needs, interests and abilities of
learners
• Emphasis on life situations, contemporary life problems, areas of
living and many others
• Content cuts across subject boundaries and must be based on the
needs, concerns and abilities of students
• Examples of this curriculum are life-situations design and core
problem design
Types of Curriculum Design Models
a. Life-Situations Design
• The contents are organized in ways that allow
students to clearly view problem areas
• Pressing immediate problems of the society
and the students’ existing concerns are utilized
• Emphasizes on activities that sustain life,
enhance life, aid in rearing children, maintain
individual’s social and political relations and
enhance leisure, tasks and feelings.
Types of Curriculum Design Models
b. Core Problem Design
• Centers on general education and the
problems are based on the common
human activities
• It includes common needs, problems,
concerns of the learners
Approaches to Curriculum Design
After writing a curriculum based on the specific design, the teacher
will have various approach to utilize as follows:

1. Child or Learner-Centered Approach

2. Subject-Centered Approach
3. Problem-Centered Approach
Approaches to Curriculum Design
1. Child or Learner-Centered Approach

This approach to curriculum design is based on the underlying

philosophy that the child is the center of the educational process.
It means that the curriculum is constructed based on the needs,
interest, purposes and abilities of the learners. The curriculum is
also built upon the learner’s knowledge, skills, learnings and
potentials
Approaches to Curriculum Design
Principles for Child-Centered Curriculum Approach:
1. Acknowledgement and respect the fundamental rights of the
child
2. All activities shall revolve around the overall development of the
learner
3. Consider the uniqueness of every learner in a multicultural
classroom
4. Consider using differentiated instruction or teaching
5. Provide a motivating supporting learning environment for all the
learner
Suppose PSBC is an example of school with Child-
Centered Approach
Suppose PSBC is an example of school with
Child-Centered Approach
Suppose PSBC is an example of school with Child-
Centered Approach
Suppose PSBC is an example of school with Child-
Centered Approach
Approaches to Curriculum Design
2. Subject-Centered Approach
This approach was anchored on the curriculum design which
prescribes separate distinct subjects for every educational level:
basic education, higher education or technical-vocational
education.
Approaches to Curriculum Design
Principles of Subject-Centered Approach:
1. The primary focus is the subject matter
2. The emphasis is on bits and pieces of information which may
be detached from life
3. The subject matter serves as a means of identifying problems
of living
4. Learning means accumulation of content or knowledge
5. Teacher’s role is to dispense the content
 LSPU

Suppose Laguna State Polytechnic University is an

example of school with Subject-Centered
Approach
Suppose Laguna State Polytechnic University is an
example of school with Subject-Centered
Approach
Approaches to Curriculum Design
3. Problem-Centered Approach
This approach is based on a curriculum design which assumes that
in the process of living, children experience problems. Thus, the
problem solving enables the learners to become increasingly able
to achieve complete or total development as individuals
Approaches to Curriculum Design
Problem-centered approach is characterized by the following views
and beliefs:
1. The learners are capable of directing and guiding themselves in
resolving problems, thus developing every learner to be
independent
2. The learners are prepared to assume their civic responsibilities
through direct participation in different activities
3. The curriculum leads the learners in the recognition of concerns
and problems in seeking solution. Learners are problem-solvers
themselves.
 Union College

Suppose Union College is an example of school

with Problem-Centered Approach
Suppose Union College is an example of school
with Problem-Centered Approach
Differences Among Various Approaches
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