This document discusses various challenges in curriculum development from different perspectives. It examines challenges from the viewpoint of curriculum area, including vocational-technical education, medical education, business education, fine arts, and technology education. It also looks at challenges from the educational level perspective of elementary education, secondary education, and higher education. Additional challenges come from issues of curriculum organization, planning processes, relevance and quality of education, rapid social and technological changes, and emerging realities like borderless learning and population growth. Technology is seen as central to addressing these challenges and transforming education for a globalized world.

1. Challenges in
Curriculum
Development
Alyssa Marie
O. DonMaster of Arts in
Education - EnglishLSPU, Los Baños Campus

2. “Quality education is
viewed as any
country’s pillar of
success.”

3. What are the
possible viewpoints
from which
challenges to
curriculum
development may
be considered?

4. TIM
E

5. CURRICULUM AREA
Vocational-Technical Education
Medical Education
Business Education
Fine Arts
Technology Education

6. EDUCATIONAL
LEVEL
• Elementary Education
• Secondary Education
• Higher Education

7. ORGANIZATION
Vertical organization
Horizontal Organization

8. CURRICULUM PLANNING
PROCESS
What approach or model to use?
What resources are needed /
available?
What procedures to employ?
What priorities to take?

9. RELEVANCE, QUALITY,
PRODUCTIVITY
Inclusive and Equitable
Quality Learning
Promoting Lifelong Learning
Relevant to holistic
development

10. RAPID CHANGE
Social changes
Technological development
Social and Political pressures

11. Emerging
Realities that
rapidly making
impact on the
educational
scenario.

12. 1. The learning continuum is
fast becoming borderless.

13. 2. Population
growth.

14. 3. Recognition
of prior
learning

15. 4. Work-specific
and beyond-the-
campus strategies

16. 5. Flexible
learning system

17. All those emerging realities,
TECHNOLOGY is undoubtedly
considered as the primary
artery of delivering education.

18. The fast and huge transformations due to
globalization and information technology are creating
great impacts on the future of every society,
community, institution and individual in different
parts of the world. Responding to the serious
challenges from all these impacts and
transformations, our education inevitably has to
change fundamentally towards a new paradigm in
order to pursue a new future for our new generations
as well as our society in such a new era of
globalization and transformation. (Cheng, 2002)