Meaning and Definition of Life Oriented Curriculum And Interdisciplinary Curriculum.

1. ASSIGNMENT
ON
UNDERSTANDING DISCIPLINES AND
SUBJECTS

3.  INTRODUCTION
 LIFE ORIENTED CURRICULUM
 DEFINITION OF LIFE ORIENTED
CURRICULUM
 CONCEPT OF LIFE ORIENTED CURRICULUM
 INTER-DISCIPLINARY CURRICULUM
 DEFINITION OF INTER-DISCIPLINARY
CURRICULUM
 CONCEPT OF INTER-DISCIPLINARY
CURRICULUM
 CHARACTERISTICS OF INTER-
DISCIPLINARY CURRICULUM

4.  CURRICULUM is defined as “ the instructional and
educative program through which the pupil achieve
their goals and aspirations of life”.
 It not only focuses on knowledge but also emphasizes
the importance of the application of skills and values in
real life situations, participation in physical activity,
community organizations and initiatives.
 There are several curriculum existing in our
educational system, out of which life-oriented
curriculum is focused now.

5.  Life Oriented curriculum incorporates many
aspects of life.
 Introduced in the late 1990’s in a democratic
South Africa , life orientation is a subject that
is made up of the Outcomes Based education
approach that then education minister Kader
Asmal implemented.

6.  Life orientation has been defined in the
National curriculum as a holistic study of the
self , the self in society , an opportunity to
develop the emotional side of young people,
the citizenship aspects of life in South African
democracy, human rights-it is actually a whole
conglomeration of many different things that
contribute to life orientation, not forgetting the
health side, life style, healthy living and
physical fitness.

7.  Life oriented curriculum guides and prepares
learner’s for life and its possibilities.
 Specifically the life-oriented learning area
equips the learners for meaningful and
successful living in a rapidly changing and
transforming society.
 It is one of the compulsory subjects required
for national senior certificate (NSC)

8. Six
Topics Of
Its
Subject
Careers &
Career
Choices
Physical
Education
Democracy
& Human
Rights
Social and
environmental
Responsibility
Development
of the self in
society
Study
Skills

9.  In 1933, a method of teaching that was strongly
advocated by John Dewey involved in students
“projects”, investigations that required the use of more
than a single academic discipline.
 Dewey believed that to be educative it was necessary
that such projects present problem that awaken new
curiosity and create a demand for information.
 Interdisciplinary instruction is a problem-centered
approach to the study of topics, themes, and major
questions that is based largely on Dewey’s ideology.

10.  “ Inter-disciplinary : a knowledge view and
curriculum approach that consciously applies
methodology and language from more than one
discipline to examine a central theme , topic,
issue , problem or work.”
- Heidi Hayes Jacobs
(interdisciplinary curriculum:
design and implementation 1989)

11.  A curriculum that is inter-disciplinary presents
content, skills , thinking processes and assessments
through exploring connections among the disciplines.

12. 1
• The way of knowing associated with any academic
disciplines that can inform the topic, theme or problem.
2
• Unit plan that focus specific topic, theme or problem
3
• Accommodate student diversity by providing for the
differentiation of student investigating and reporting
techniques.
4
• The mastery of content , concepts, facts , generalization
and principles.

13.  The curriculum should be updated and introduce
the innovative way for better for effective
teaching and learning process.
 Life-orientation and inter-disciplinary become
relevant and necessary in the general educational
curriculum to provide the learner with the way of
dealing with knowledge explosion and of
selecting and organizing this knowledge into
meaningful patterns and generalizations.

14.  Understanding disciplines and subjects
-- J. Remi Hepsibha
 Understanding disciplines and subjects
-- Dr. S. Suma
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