LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 11 : 5 May 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Foundations of Curriculum in Education

Amtul Hafeez Chaudhry, Ph.D., Aijaz Ahmed Gujjar, Ph.D. Candidate and
Muhammad Ramzan, Ph.D.

Introduction

Curriculum development not an easy task it require technical competence, ability to understand curriculum problems and also understanding curriculum development process prevailing all over globe. Curriculum developers should ensure that they are working in accordance with national goals, ideas and aspirations.

Curriculum development is a process which has relies on certain basis or foundations. These foundations are very important. These foundations are built on certain factors and theoretical aspects.

Curriculum developers have knowledge of theoretical aspect of their work which in other words refers to foundations of curriculum. The curriculum foundation may be defined as those basic forces that influence and shapes of minds of curriculum developers and enhance the content and structure of the subsequent curriculum. Ideas about curriculum do not arise automatically in vacuum. Such ideas are actually based upon views about nature, source of values, worthwhile, knowledge and the role of teachers and the school. Therefore the development of curriculum depends largely on the ideas that grow out of the fields of philosophy, psychology and sociology.

a. The literature in this area generally distinguishes three categories of sources for curriculum foundations. [Tyler1949; Lawton 1973; Tanner & tanner 1930; Taba 1962; Saylor, Alexander & Lewis 1981;Eisner 1979; Brady 1992]

a. Studies of learners and learning theory [psychology].
b. Studies if life [sociology and culture].
c. Study of nature and value of knowledge. [Philosophy]

These sources of curriculum foundations constitute the principal area of the curriculum development and effect the ways the developers think and conceive about curricula.

Philosophical work can help curriculum developers to understand the

. Nature of objectives
. Structure and interrelationship of objectives.
. Nature of curriculum activities.
. The structure of curriculum plan and the contents and method.

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Dr. Amtul Hafeez Chaudhry
Faculty of Education
Allama Iqbal Open University
H-8, Islamabad, Pakistan
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Aijaz Ahmed Gujjar
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Federal College of Education
H-9, Islamabad, Pakistan
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Dr Muhammad Ramzan
Associate Professor
Department of Education
Karakoram International University
Gilgit, Pakistan
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