Forms/Types/Designs of curriculum core curriculum activity-based curriculum students centered curriculum teacher-centered curriculum hidden curriculum societal curriculum learner-centered curriculum Subject centered curriculum

1. Forms/Types of Curriculum
Hina Jalal (PhD Scholar) GCUF

2. Types of Curriculum
1. Overt, explicit, or written curriculum Is simply that which is written as part of formal
instruction of schooling experiences. It may
refers to a curriculum document, texts, films, and
supportive teaching materials that are overtly
chosen to support the intentional instructional
agenda of a school.
2. Societal curriculum (or social curricula) As defined by Cortes (1981) “[the] massive,
ongoing, informal curriculum of family, peer
groups, neighborhoods, churches, organizations,
occupations, mass media, and other socializing
forces that “educate” all of us throughout our
lives”.
3. The hidden or covert curriculum Longstreet and Shane (1993) argued “hidden
curriculum,” is which refers to the kinds of
learnings children derive from the very nature
and organizational design of the public school, as
well as from the behaviours and attitudes of
teachers and administrators

3. 4. Subject-Centered Curriculum Subject-centered curriculum design revolves around a subject
matter or discipline. For example, a subject-centered curriculum
may focus on math or biology. This type of curriculum design
tends to focus on the subject rather than the individual.
5. Learner-Centered
Curriculum
Learner-centered curriculum design takes everyone’s needs,
interests, and goals into consideration. In other words, it
acknowledges that students are not uniform and adjusts to those
student needs. Learner-centered curriculum design is meant to
empower learners and allow them to shape their education
through choices.

4. 6. Teacher-centered
curriculum
In teacher centered education, students pull all their focus on the
teacher. The teacher talks, while the student exclusively listen. It is
primary role of teacher to pass knowledge & information onto their
students. In this approach, teaching & assessment are viewed as
two separate entities. Student learning is measured through
objectively scored test & assessment.
7. Activity Based
Curriculum
Activity based curriculum determine the genuine need and interest of
learner which is turn from the basic of curriculum. An importance of claim
of this approach is that “people only learn what they experience.”
8. Core Curriculum A core curriculum is a set of educational goals, explicitly taught (and not
taught), focused on making sure that all students involved learn certain
material tied to a specific age or grade level.
9. Integrated Curriculum According to Roberts & kellough, (2000) “The term integrated curriculum
refers to a way of teaching, planning, & organizing so the discrete
disciplines of subject matter are integrated and match the developmental
needs of the learner, help to meaningfully connect the student’ learning to
their current and past experiences”