Understand the need and importance of curriculum. 📜
Analyze different issues in curriculum. 🧐
Apply different approaches to curriculum construction. 🏗️
Construct curriculum for children with special needs. 👦👧
📘 Syllabus
SECTION-A
Curriculum: concept, need, and importance; types of curriculum, Foundation of curriculum; decentralization of curriculum development and national practices. 📖
Process of curriculum change and development. 🔄
Stakeholders in Curriculum: Learner characteristics, Teacher's experiences, Parental expectations. 👩🏫👨👩👧👦
SECTION-B
Approaches to Curriculum development: Subject-centered and learner-centered; Content organization; Spiral curriculum, unitization of syllabus, integration of school curriculum with futuristic needs; vocational bias and skill development curriculum. 🏫
Curriculum for children with special needs: purpose and importance, curriculum needs of gifted, visually challenged and slow learners. 👦👧
Activities (Any one of the following)
Preparing a report on difficulties faced in chapter-wise teaching of the school subject. 📝
Identifying gender bias in any one chapter of a school textbook. ⚖️
Critical appraisal of NCF-2005. 📚
📚 Books Recommended
Butchvarov, P. (1970), The Concept of Knowledge, Evanston, Illinois: North Western University Press. 📘
Chomsky, N (1986). Knowledge of Language, New York : Prager. 📗
Cole Luella (1950). A History of Education: Socrates to Montessori, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston. 📕
Datta, D.M. (1972). Six ways of Knowing. Calcutta.: Calcutta University Press. 📙
Dewey, J. (1997) My Pedagogic Creed‟, in D.J. Flinders and S.J. Thornton(eds.) The Curriculum Studies Reader, New York: Routledge. 📘
Dewey, J (1956). The Child and the Curriculum and School and Society, University of Chicago Press, U.S.A. Chicago, Illinois. 📗
Krishna M. J. (1947) On Education, New Delhi: Orient Longman. 📙
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