CUS3701
ASSIGNMENT 2
DUE: 20 JUNE 2024
SEMESTER 1
, QUESTION 1
Various curriculum approaches to curriculum development have implications for
teachers and learners.
1.1 Insert a table and place the following curriculum implications (numbered 1 – 10 below)
for teachers and learners under the correct approach, namely behavioural,
experiential, technological, naturalistic, humanistic and OBE:
For example:
APPROACH CURRICULUM IMPLICATION
Academic Curriculum development is a systematic process
directed by academic rationality and theoretical logic.
PREVIEW
, APPROACH CURRICULUM IMPLICATION
Behavioural Teachers become reflective practitioners with seven roles to fulfil.
Teachers must perceive learners as cognitively functioning
individuals within a social context.
Experiential Assessment is continuous, based on a variety of techniques.
Informal and hidden curriculum is also important, not only the formal
and planned curriculum.
Technological The same curriculum elements of the academic, experience-based,
and technological approaches can be used.
Naturalistic Self-directed, unstructured, and personalised instruction
programmes that are
“self-paced”.
Humanistic There is ongoing give and take within specific interest groups and
viewpoints,
negotiation, and curriculum consensus.
Teachers must perceive learners as cognitively functioning
individuals within asocial context.
OBE Stress on teachers and their cooperative curriculum
decisionsPermission for more teacher input in curriculum decisions.