Types of curriculum

 Types of curriculum

• Traditional or subject centered curriculum
• Activity centered curriculum
• Child centered curriculum
• Experienced centered curriculum
• Undifferentiated curriculum

Traditional curriculum

• It is conceived in terms of subjects of study.
• This curriculum is organized with greatest emphasis on knowledge including facts, concepts, principles, processes and skills in the subject concerned.
• All stress was on cognitive attainment of the learners rather than their personal and social development.

Activity centered curriculum

• Subject matter is translated in terms of activities and knowledge is gained as an outgrowth and product of these activities.
• Activity is used as the medium for imparting knowledge, attitudes as well as skills.

Child centered curriculum

• This is learner oriented.
• Subject should be chosen and taught keeping in view of social, emotional and intellectual needs of children as well as their capabilities and development status.

Experience centered curriculum

• It lays stress on the experience which the individual is to get while participating in the process of learning.
• Here experience of the individual is the starting point of learning and not the subject matter or the interest of the individual.

Undifferentiated curriculum

• It does not aim at the specialized study of various subjects.
• Specialization should come at the higher secondary or higher education level only.
• At primary level all round development of personality is possible only through integrated experiences and the only means of bringing about this integration is the unification of subjects.