Semester Offered:                                         Semester 7

Course Coordinator and Team:                  SES Faculty

Email of course coordinator:                       pcbabed@aud.ac.in 

Pre-requisites:                                               No

Course Description:

The course on curriculum planning and development will introduce student teachers to the process of designing and organising the curriculum i.e., the totality of learning experience provided to learners through a deliberate and organised set of arrangements that contribute to the development of the knowledge, capacities, and values and dispositions that help fulfil the aims of school education derived from the purposes and goals articulated in NEP 2020.

Course Objectives:

• To understand the concepts of curriculum, curriculum planning and development.
• To understand curriculum development as a process of designing, implementing and evaluating the educational experiences that students engage in.
• To introduce students to diverse theoretical perspectives related to curriculum development.
• To develop curriculum that focuses on equity, diversity and inclusion of all children.

Course Outcomes:

• Reflect on the idea/concept of curriculum
• Explain key concepts related to curriculum planning and development
• Identify and distinguish between different perspectives on/theories of curriculum development

Brief description of the modules:

Module 1: Education and Curriculum

Education and curriculum are inextricably linked aspects of the educational process. This module will focus on the meaning, the needs and engagement of students, social and cultural contexts of learning vis-a-vis educational goals.

Module 2: Developing the Curriculum

This module will focus on the principles and models of curriculum development. It will introduce the students to the multifaceted aspects of the process of curriculum development.

Module 3: Approaches, Planning, and Implementation

This module will focus on constructivist approaches to curriculum development. It will emphasize on the role of the teachers and also learners as they construct their meanings of the world through engagement with their contexts.

Assessment Plan

Assessment	Weightage
Assignment 1	50%
Assignment 2: End-term	50%

Readings:

• National Council of Educational Research and Training. (2006). Position paper: National focus group on curriculum syllabus and textbook. National Council of Educational Research and Training, Delhi, India. (Summary, and Chapter 3: Mapping the conceptual field: Notions of curriculum, syllabus and textbooks, pp. 9-19) 
• Kumar, K. (1992). What is worth teaching? In What is worth teaching (pp. 1 – 22). Orient Longman.
• Marsh, C. J. (2004). Key concepts for understanding curriculum (3rd ed.). London. (Chapter 1: What is curriculum, p. 1-9).
• Posner, G. J. (1998). Models of curriculum planning. In L. E. and M. W. Apple (Eds.) The curriculum: Problems, politics and possibilities (2nd ed.) (pp. 79-91). New York: Sunny Press.
• Kelly, A.V. (2009). The curriculum theory and practice. Sage. (Chapters 2 & 3, pp. 46-82)
• Button, L. (2021). Curriculum essentials: A journey. Pressbooks. (Chapter 5: Curriculum design, development and models)
• Anderson, L W and Krathwohl, D. R. (Eds). (2001). A taxonomy for learning, teaching and assessing: A revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives Addison Wesley Longman. (6 pages)
• Brooks, M. (1987). Curriculum development from a constructivist perspective. Educational Leadership, 44(4), 63-67.
• Marsh, C. J. (2004). Key concepts for understanding curriculum (3rd ed.). London: RoutledgeFalmer. (Chapter 7: Curriculum implementation, p. 65-77). 
• Giroux, Henry A. (1988). Teachers as transformative intellectuals. In teachers as intellectuals: Toward a critical pedagogy of learning (pp. 121-128). Bergin and Garvey
• Button, L. (2021). Curriculum essentials: A journey. Pressbooks. (Chapter 5: Curriculum design, development and models)