Student CENTREDNESS
How to Develop and Implement Student-Centred Course Curricula
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.