This document discusses learner-centered and student-centered curriculum. It defines these concepts and outlines their key features and advantages according to various scholars like Kelly, Dewey, and the Progressive Education Commission. The main points made are:
1) A learner-centered curriculum focuses on students' needs, interests, and development rather than a fixed set of lessons.
2) Key aspects include allowing student interaction, teaching according to growth stages, and suiting interests/abilities.
3) A student-centered curriculum provides direct experiences like field trips and indirect experiences like media. It is flexible and puts the student at the center of learning.
4) Advantages include increased student motivation, participation, and functional learning skills. Limit
3. Learner Centered
Curriculum
Education is life ,and since life is changing ,there
could be no fixed curriculum. Curriculum is to be
built upon what the pupils are interested and the
development of the whole personality of the child.
10. Student centered curriculum
refers to
Arrangement of set of learning experiences both
direct and indirect that allows students to
participate fully.
11. Student centered curriculum
Direct
Field Trips
Laboratory
Experiences
Completing
assignment
projects
Indirect
Radio and television
programs
Recorded audio and video
cassettes
Daily news paper,
Magazine and text books
etc.,
12. Important features of student
centered curriculum
Structure:
Cares more for the
development of the
individual learner inner
potentials
Importance given for the
inculcation of original
thinking, practical skills
and free expression of
own ideas
Plans to prepare
personality
development
13. Important features of student
centered curriculum
Objectives:
Not planned in
advance
Formulated on
the basis of the
student need ,
interest,
developmental
stage
Highly flexible
14. Important features of student
centered curriculum
Contents:
Selected basis of the student
need, ability to learn , age ,
aptitude and previous
experiences
Lessons are written using words
familiar to the students
Rote learning is not encouraged
Direct experiences are insisted
to facilitate original thinking
16. Important features of student
centered curriculum
Teaching and learning:
Time allotted for teaching reduced
More time allowed for self learning
Active interaction between teacher and
the student creates good learning
environment
Audio Visual materials and practical
demonstrations are increasingly used
on the classroom instruction
Students are encouraged to undertake
projects, prepare assignments and
learn by self efforts
17. Important features of student
centered curriculum
Grouping of
learners:
Students are
organized into
groups based on
their achievements
and interest
Students learn
through group
activities.
18. Important features of student
centered curriculum
Time schedule and space:
Time table is flexible
Time allotted depending on
the nature and difficulty of
the lesson
Learning take place in
different places like
laboratory , library, workshop
, gymnasium etc., in addition
to the classroom.
Filed trips and educational
tours are encouraged
19. Important features of student
centered curriculum
Role of the teacher:
Teacher is a facilitator
Social distance between
the teacher and the
student will decrease.
Teacher will not hesitate to
accept student’s ideas.
20. Important features of student
centered curriculum
Evaluation:
Apart from teacher
evaluation ,self evaluation
will be there.
Students are assessed
how they learn not merely
what they learn
21. Advantages of Student centered
Curriculum
Students take responsibility
for their learning
Actively involved
Students encouraged to
asking questions and get
answered
Seeking reasons for any thing
and everything
Independently completing the
task
22. Advantages of Student centered
Curriculum
Students participate directly in
learning activities.
Students show more interest
and involvement in learning
Helps the student to develop
multiple skills including physical
and practical
Learning will not be memorizing
and retaining
Students are helped to reflect
what they learn and how they
learn
23. Advantages of Student centered
Curriculum
Students are themselves are
able to direct their learning
activities
Motivation to learn increases
Encourages the students to
work together and learn
Students are self motivated
and get good achievement in
learning
Helps students to get
functional learning
24. Advantages of Student centered
Curriculum
Primarily based on growth
and development of the
student
Helps to integrate and
learning experiences
Joyful activity while
implementing learner
centered curriculum
25. Advantages of Student centered
Curriculum
Gain meaningful knowledge
that will help them
throughout life
help to build social skills
and self-esteem
students gain more
emotional and cognitive
support from their peers
Relationship between rights
and responsibilities is
learned
26. Advantages of Student centered
Curriculum
Students discover that learning is
interesting and fun
Teachers have less traditional work
to do
Students are more attentive and
willing to participate in the class
Complaints about irrelevance and
unfairness decrease
Reports and papers generated by
students increase a teacher's
collection of useful information
27. Advantages of Student centered
Curriculum
The pupil has more of an active role to
play in their learning
Students can adapt the way they learn,
to make their studies more effective
The ideal situation for this type group
work is that weaker students should be
placed with more able students to act
as scaffolding
Students work on projects or problems
in teams with both personal and team
accountability for conceptual
understanding
28. Advantages of Student centered
Curriculum
Students work together in achieving
goals by upholding the norms of the
group
Students are actively helping and
motivating spirit to succeed together
Active role as peer tutors to further
enhance the group’s success
Interaction between students with
increasing their ability to argue
29. Limitations of learner centered
curriculum
Take a long time for teachers so
that teachers in general do not
want to use cooperative
learning
Essential contents to be learnt
values requires may not find a
place.
Need of students widely vary
Lack of Logical sequence may
leads to lack of continuity
30. Limitations of learner centered
curriculum
Students at secondary level
are not mature enough to
know their future needs.
They may also exaggerate
their abilities.
Curriculum based on students
present needs and interests
may not meet their future
needs.
It requires a longer time for
students so it is difficult to
achieve curriculum targets
31. Limitations of learner centered
curriculum
In subject centered
curriculum ,instructional
materials and aids which are
available in the market can
be used, But in student
centered curriculum the
subject teacher has to
prepare them.
Teachers need wider
scholarships and better
resourcefulness
33. Experience Centered Curriculum
Also known as Experiential Curriculum
Learns through direct experiences from life
situations.
Helps to understand easily and acquires
lasting knowledge ,values and attitudes.
Ability to know the nature and problems of the
real world and face them effectively.
34. Experience Centered Curriculum
Activities like learning by doing undertaking
practical work properly getting involved in
social service and beautifying the school
campus ,taking part in filed trips and other co-
curricular activities with enthusiasm are the
curricular activities that helps to understand
the real world.
35. Experience Centered Curriculum
Kothari commission recommendation:
Work experience should be a necessary part
of the curriculum at all levels of education.
Experience centered curriculum is not
interested in knowledge alone, it makes
students to get involved in skill development
also
36. Experience Centered Curriculum
John Dewey who laid the foundation for the
project method learning says:
When a child returns from school should not
tell its mother that I learned this or that (or
was taught this or that ) today ;but should say
today I had these new experiences .If it
describes that way, I will consider it as good
learning.
38. Activity Centered Curriculum
Acquires knowledge by carrying out different
activities.
Learning by doing is the best form of learning.
Activity Based Learning is followed in Primary
Schools in Tamil Nadu
Activities done either by individual or by groups.
Activities can be done either at Classrooms or in
their homes.
39. Activity Centered Curriculum
Examples:
Tending Plants
Preparing handicrafts
Participation in music,Drama,dance and other
cultural programs
Conducting fairs and exhibitions
Managing co operative societies in schools
Taking part in educational games
40. The Progressive Education Commission on
Secondary Education, New York,1958
Categorized the needs of the children under
the following four major groups.
Needs of Personal living
Needs for immediate personal social
relationship
Needs related to social and civic relationship
Needs related to economic relationships
41. Needs of personal living
Need for personal health
Need for self assurance
Needs related to personal interest
Aesthetic needs
42. Needs of Immediate Personal - Social
relationships
Having cordial relationship with family members
Having cordial relationship with neighbours
Having mature relationship with peers of both
sexes.
43. Needs related to Social and Civic
Relationship
Responsible participation in socially significant
activities
Trying to get social recognition
44. Needs related to Economic Relationships
Need for achieving economic independence
Need for selecting an occupation for life and
developing vocational skills.
Need for wise selection and use of goods and
services
Need for finding solutions to basic economic
problems.
45. Humanistic Curriculum Design
In addition to these two types of student
centered curriculum designs ,recently
humanistic curriculum has started receiving
the attention of the educators.
46. Humanistic Curriculum Design
Importance given to refining students emotions
According to Carl Rogers, by encouraging
students ,Self directed learning ,
Helped to utilize the available resources properly
Know about themselves objectively
Develop desirable attitudes
Self direct their behaviour
47. Syllabus
Syllabus is the part of curriculum forming its core
components. It is a document prescribing the
contents of each subject as topics to be taught. It
describes in detail what are to be learned by
students.
48. Differences
Curriculum is the overall
academic content and
educational experiences
provided by an institute.
Developed at the state,
district or institution
level.
Cannot be modified.
Syllabus is the
descriptive list of
subjects that are to be
taught is a class.
Prepared by the teacher.
Could be adjusted
easily.
49. Differences
It is prescriptive.
It is not accessible
to students.
The focus is on all
round development
of the student
It is descriptive.
It is accessible to
students.
Focuses towards a
particular subject.