The document discusses Hilda Taba's model of curriculum development, which takes an inductive and teacher-centered approach. Taba believed curriculum should be developed based on analyzing societal needs and demands, both currently and in the future, in order to best prepare students to participate in their culture. She also recognized that curriculum reconstruction is a long-term, non-linear process influenced by social factors. Taba advocated starting curriculum design by understanding students' needs before developing the curriculum content and objectives.

1. MODELS OF CURRICULUM
DEVELOPMENT
Esraa Talal

3. SOME OF TABA’S PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS
ON CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
Social processes, including the socialization of
human beings, are not linear, and they cannot
be modeled through linear planning.
The reconstruction of curricula and programs
Is not a short-terms effort but a long process, lasting
for years.

5. TABA MODEL:
*Taba model is inductive approach.
*Taba model is teacher approach.
*Taba’s is the Grass-root approach.
*The main idea to this approach is that the needs of
the students are at the forefront to the curriculum.

6. TABA’S INDUCTIVE APPROACH
Taba advocated an inductive approach to curriculum
development.

10. Taba believed that: “To evolve a theory of curriculum
development and a method of thinking about it, one of
needs to ask what demands and requirements of
culture and society both are, both for the present and
the future. Curriculum is a way of preparing young
people to participate in our culture”.