DETEMINANTS OF

CURRICULUM

PRESENTED BY:- SHAINA SHARMA

 MEANING

1) Etymological: ‘currer’which means to run.

2) General:- The ground which the pupils and the teacher cover to
reach the goal of education.

3) Traditional:- Mastery over certain types of knowledge and skills.

4) Modern : It is a process intended to help pupil to live in present

world & to build the future world in which his generation would live.
 DEFINITION
Modalior commission :- “Curriculum includes
all the learner’s experiences in or outside that
are included in a program which has been
devised to help him develop physically,
emotionally, socially, spiritually and morally.”
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
•The processes of assessing needs, formulating objectives, and developing instructional opportunities and evaluation.
•The process of creating planned curriculum, pedagogy, instruction, and presentation modes.

CURRICULUM
DEVELOPMENT
•The processes of
assessing needs,
formulating objectives,
and developing
instructional opportunities
and evaluation.
•The process of creating
planned curriculum,
pedagogy, instruction, and
presentation modes.
 DETERMINANTS OF
CURRICULUM
Philosophy

Scientific Sociology

Political Psychology
 Philosophical determinants of curriculum

It aims at the all-round development of the individual.

It is based on the philosophy of the nation.

It reflects the ideals and aspirations of the people.

It inculcates the desired ideals of life in the youngsters.

It helps in the development of proper philosophy of life.

It is in accordance with the aspiration level of the individual

It enables the learners to learn the desirable cultural values,

intellectual virtues, societal norms and moral doctrine.

It helps in the development of the personal and national

character.
 The philosophical foundations
of the education

Activity
Child Need
centeredness
centeredness centeredness
(project and
(Naturalistic (Pragmatic
basic
philosophy) philosophy)
curriculum)
 Sociological determinants of curriculum

Core Faiths,
values Changing Demands Good Democrat beliefs
and values of of the family, ic temper and the
needs of the modern ways of of the attitudes
the Indian people. society life. society of the
society people.
Cooperation

Media explosion

Population explosion

Regional and national imbalances.

Economic efficiency

Education for fellowship and leadership

Creative and purposeful activities

Cultural, political factors

Knowledge, attitude and beliefs.

The characteristics of the curriculum

To realize the social aims of the education

Makes education as an effective media of social

control

Keeps in mind the social changes and reflects the

social needs of the community

Dynamic, flexible ad progressive.

Transmit the values and ideals that the society

upholds and consider to be inherited by new
generation.
Related to social interests and problems of
the society.

Enables the youngsters
to participate
efficiently in social life.
Aids them in promoting
the social progress
Inculcates in them
respect for different
Develops desirable
vocations and
social attitudes
professions and creates
the dignity of labour.
To develop each
Aims at educating for
individual to the
the vacation and
optimum possible
vocation.
progress level
It is functional and
socially utilitarian.
 Psychological determinants of
curriculum
Knowledge of the nature of the learner and learning process and the
condition facilitating optimum learning.

Knowledge of growth and development

Intelligence, development capacities.

Curriculum to be child centered, learning experiences should be

provided in accordance with the mental development of the learner.

Interests of the learner.

Scientific : To achieve complete
development of an individual
& to prepare for complete
living i.e. human activities in 5 Political : To develop
categories: self preservation, democratic values of social
self protection, promote justice, equity, socialism, rights
human pregnancy & its & duties.
protection, social & political
protection & last proper
utilization of leisure time.
MAJOR FACTORS OF
THE DEVELOPMENT
OF A CURRICULUM
DEVELOPMENT
Philosophy of nursing education

Education is the deliberate and systematic influence

exerted by the mature person upon the immature person
through instruction, discipline and harmonious
development of all powers of the human being. Physical,
social, intellectual, aesthetic and spiritual according to their
essential hierarchy, by and for their individual and social
uses and directed towards the union of the educator and
with his creator as the final end.

Instruction and development of powers are the means; the

goal is to prepare the student so that he can attain the end
for which he was created.
Natural bonds
Logical bonds
Social bonds
Cultural bonds
Human bonds
Religious bonds
 Educational psychology

•It forms the basis for development of principles

and methods of teaching.

•The information obtained through educational

psychology applied to nursing education, through
research and experience provides information
and principles which serve to help in selection,
organization and evaluation of learning
experiences in the curriculum.
 Society

changing
Nursing needs of
Nursing Man. Individual The nation
students society the
curriculum.
 Health needs

Nursing is inextricably tied

The need for
up with the social culture in
an enormous which it is carried on, nursing
A study of
increase in is affected by the society in
the social
the supply of which it flourishes and the
changes and school of nursing must
nursing care
their prepare the number and the
required to
influence. kind of nurses essential to
meet
fulfill nursing needs of
demands. society.
 Meeting the
THE
nursing
STUDENT
needs.

Adjustment
Guidance
of the
programmes
student
 Life activities
Activities: the nursing and the personal activities in which
the student will engage as a nurse and as a person.

General categories of life activities:-

•Professional
•Family
•Civic
•Leisure
•Spiritual
Effective preparation for life activities:-

The growth of the student in individual

capacities and in social participation.

The curriculum of the nursing should provide

opportunities for the development of both.
 Factors
affecting the
life activities:-

In nursing The health of

Changes in:
education the nation.

In nursing In socio
Political forces
functions economic
The primary purpose of the curriculum in nursing:-

The preparation of the student to function as a nurse.

Increase preparation of the student for family functioning.

To become more fully prepared to participate in the life activities, to

become a better person and a better citizen as well as a good nurse
for having studied in the school of nursing

The preparation of the nurse who can carry out those activities
necessary to fulfill as a professional nurse in a democratic society.
 Knowledge

It is substantive dimension of the educative process.

Knowledge is the stock is trade of all school curricula
which consists of:-

•Subject matter courses in which mastery of content is

not pursued as the end, but is used as a resource.
•Mastery of content is pursued as an end in itself.
•Change in every phase of life is probably the greatest
challenge to education today.
 NATURE OF Descriptive Normative
KNOWLEDGE knowledge knowledge
 The curriculum
committee is charged
with developing the
standards-based
CURRICULUM
curriculum and
COMMITTEE
addressing the broader
concerns that will be
reflected in the
curriculum framework.
Curriculum policy makers •State departments of
and developers:- education
•Curriculum •Parents
administrators •Students
•Principles •Non- school educators
•School boards •Project directors
•Communities •Authors
•Law makers •Testers
•Educational researchers •Accreditors
•Teacher educators •Polisters
•Publishers •Lobbyists
•Philanthropists
 PRINCIPLES Principle of Principle of
Principles of
OF child- life-
Utility
CURRICULUM centeredness centeredness

Principle for Principle of Principle of

Principle of
the use of activity- community-
correlation
leisure centeredness centeredness

Principle of
Principle of Principle of Principle of
development
inter-relation need based value-
of culture and
of subject activity orientedness
civilization

Principle of Conservative
harmony principles
THE CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
PROCESS