Points of View on Curriculum
Development
Two models of Curriculum
Development
Ralph Tyler
Hilda Taba
Points of View on Curriculum
[Link] Development
of the
Ralph Tyler’s Model:
school
Four Basic Principles / Tyler’s
Rationale
He posited four fundamental questions / principles
in examining any curriculum in schools.
2. Educational
experiences related 1. What educational purposes should
to the purposes the school seek to attain?
2. What educational experiences can
be provided that are likely to attain
these purposes?
3. Organization of
the experiences 3. How can these educational
experiences be effectively organized?
4. How can we determine whether
4. Evaluation these purposes are being attained or
of the not?
experiences
Points of View on Curriculum
Development
Hilda Taba :
Linear Model / Grassroots Approach
1. Diagnosis of learner’s needs
and expectations of the larger
She improved Tyler’s society
She improved Tyler’s
Rationale by making a linear
Rationale by making a linear 2. Formulation of learning
model. objectives
model.
She believed that teachers 3. Selection of learning content
She believed that teachers
who teach or implement the
who teach or implement the
curriculum should 4. Organization of learning
curriculum should content
participate in
participate in
developing it. 5. Selection of learning
developing it.
experiences
She presented seven major
She presented seven major 6. Organization of learning
steps to her model where activities
steps to her model where
teachers could have major
teachers could have major 7. Determination of what to
input.
input. evaluate and the means of doing it.