CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT: PROCESS, STRATEGIES AND PROSPECTS

Abstract

The curriculum is a coherent unit of planned activities that are undertaken by a learner during his entire learning career under the coaching of school to university. The curriculum indicates what objectives must be achieved by the student and what tasks must be fulfilled in order to achieve these A curriculum always primarily relates to an entire study program and consists of course subjects and possibly groups of course subjects. Traditionally content has always been considered the most important and relevant component of the curriculum. Process of curriculum development is essential for successful achieving educational goals. Outcome-based education and a performance-based approach help to process of curriculum development in a way that offers a powerful and appealing way of reforming and managing education system of a country. This paper is an attempt to answer the following questions of curriculum development: What sort of outcomes should be covered in a curriculum? How should they be assessed and how should outcome-based education be implemented?