Issues in curriculum development

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1. Issues in Curriculum Development

2. contents Issues Issues in Curriculum Development Problems of Curriculum Development at Primary Level in Developing Countries Issues & Problems of Curriculum Development in Pakistan

3. Issues: "Issue" is associated with difficult decisions and disagreements. A issue is something that causes debate and divides people

4. Issues in Curriculum Development: Curriculum is outdated Absence of school teachers’ involvement Result of weak academic skills of researchers: Result of EAST’s contribution to solving curriculum problems of weak academic skills of researchers Lack of Sequence Economic Problems Political Interference Disapproval of society Curriculum more Urbanized

5. Curriculum is Outdated: Firstly, the curriculum is outdated, which does not meet the local needs of Pakistani society. our present generation is learning the same knowledge that previous two generations have learnt. As students from different parts of the world get difficult mathematical and scientific knowledge by activity-based learning, our students are forced to know scientific concepts through cramming.

6. Absence of School Teachers’ Involvement: it is seen that the academic experience of teachers from different schools is also not considered in designing and revising school curriculum. without intelligent participation of school teachers, meaningful curriculum development will not be achieved. teachers, who are involved in bringing out educational change, accept and adopt the new ideas more quickly than those teachers who are not involved in carrying out change. Useful evidence suggests that in countries where well-educated teachers were not involved in the curriculum development process, they did not accept new changes in school textbooks.

7. Result of Weak Academic Skills of Researchers: With lack of academic skills in researchers responsible for designing curriculum for schools, the most important feature of curriculum, i.e . content  suffers a lot. Students follow rote-learning process, because the content of their books does not match to their educational skills. In order to make students problem-solvers, our books must contain questions that relate to problems we face in our daily life. By answering those questions, students will learn to solve issues in difficult situations.

8. EAST’s Contribution to Solving Curriculum Problems: EAST has developed a curriculum that provides activity-based learning to students and gives problem-solving skills to them.

9. Lack of Sequence: There is a little coordination among the committees working for curriculum development at various stages. When a student completes his studies at a particular stage enters the next stage, he finds himself helpless. The concepts being taught at this stage are quite strange. It needed that learning experiences selected and organized for every stage should follow the pervious one and should be sequential in form.

10. Economic Problems: Change in curriculum, needs financial support. New teaching materials are required. New teaching materials textbooks are to be revised to fulfill the changing needs of the society. Supportive personal are required to assist the teachers for effective implementation of new curriculum designs.

11. Political Interference: Every person coming into power brings with him his vested interests and few educational plans for the nation, in such atmosphere educationist is likely to suffer from frustration.

12. Disapproval of society: Society has its own expectations about the aims and objectives that should  be considered when designing the curriculum. It also has a perception of what the product of the school system should look like. It is therefore necessary for curriculum designers to take in to account these societal considerations.

13. Curriculum more Urbanized: In Pakistan seventy percent of the total population is settled in rural areas. But the same coursed are being offered in rural and urban schools, when urban children come with a certain background of language, particularly Urdu with either subject such as social studies, general science etc. The need is to design a separate curriculum for rural areas.

14. Lack of Teaching Material: Many of the educational programmers are fain due to lack of teaching materials.  It faced many problems due to lack of textbooks and other teaching material. Though teacher too, takes a little interest but major factor for its failure is shortage of instructional materials.

15. Lack of commitment of National Philosophy: A workable educational policy is always based on a philosophy. Every nation has a philosophical way of life. Due to lack of philosophy we are unable to derive consistent educational objectives.

16. Problems of Curriculum Development at Primary Level in Developing Countries : Global Demands at Primary Level Free compulsory and universal education All round development of a child Expectations of parents politicians economists psychologist educator's religious leaders

17. Curriculum Development Problems Increasing number of students Variety of students from different backgrounds Socio economic groups Value groups Psychological differences Geopolitical groups

18. Problems of Curriculum Planners Background and mind set Approach to curriculum development National problems

19. Problems of a Typical School Low participation rate High dropout Lack of facilities Teachers problem Textbook problem Examinations Students background Lake of community sport

20. Issues & problems of curriculum development in Pakistan: Focusing on Learning Involving Teachers Economic Issues Global Issues Issues of Curriculum Understanding Issues of Diversity and Relevance Issues of Biases Language Issues