How to Develop and Implement Student-Centred Course Curricula

Student CENTREDNESS

Student-Centred Course
Curriculum Development
Traditional Curriculum
Development vs Student-
Centred Curriculum
Content Selection and
Priority Setting
Teaching Methods
Evaluation
The Support Teachers Need
Advantages of a Student-
Centred Curriculum
Literature

Curriculum theory and planning can be seen as a systematic attempt by educationalists and teachers to specify and study planned intervention in the educational enterprise.

Traditional approaches to curriculum development (Tyler 1949) see the development of curricula as a linear process that follows a rather simple means-end view of education and does not consider what actually happens in the classroom. More recent models of curriculum development (Stenhouse 1975; Nunan 1988; Richards 2001) provide a more process-orientated view which considers the elements that are described below as important.