KNOWLEDGE AND CURRICULUM

                               (COURSE 103) KNOWLEDGE AND CURRICULUM

Unit-1: Epistemological Concerns

a)      Knowledge and Information – Meaning and difference between knowledge and information and their implications for teaching and learning in schools.

b)      Process of knowledge creation – Western and Indian views- Inter disciplinary perspectives.

Unit-2: Approaches and Designs of Curriculum Development

a)      Relating curriculum to knowledge development – various approaches to curriculum design – behaviorist, cognitivist and constructivist perspectives.

b)      Developing a curriculum for a specific stage – structure and constraints in developing a structure.

Unit-3: Curriculum Transaction

a)      Direct and Indirect curriculum transactional strategies – Difference between the two, Focus on a few selected strategies such as interactive discussions, team teaching, inquiry training, experiential learning and brain storming etc.

b)      Determinants of effective curriculum transaction.

i)        The teacher

ii)      The learner

iii)    The school

iv)    The community

Unit-4: Curriculum for Catering Learner Diversity

a)      Learner need – diversity in terms of sociological perspectives: Addressing the diversities in a school related site.

b)      Issues of congruence between need of learners and the content & process stressed through the curriculum.