THE ANATOMY OF

CURRICULUM
 ANATOMY OF CURRICULUM

Aims
CONTENT

goal

objective
EVALUATION
Empirical Sources of aims, goals and
objectives
 studies of society : direct self preservation,
indirect self-preservation (e.g: securing
food, shelter, etc), parenthood, citizenship,
leisure activities. Spencer (1959) (in Zais,
1976) said that science is the most valuable
study in achieving these purposes
 Studies of Learners: learners’ Needs (gap

between predetermine norm and actual

status).
 Needs

Phyisiological needs: food,

water

Social needs: belongingness,

self esteem

Self-integrative needs: needs for

meaning or self realization in
one’s life
 Phylosophical source
Determine whether the
curriculum ask to student
to compete with other
students or comparing to
themselves.
 Subject Matter Sources
 Most commonly used by many countries
curriculum
 Determine subject based on: fact, concept,

theory, law.

 What I fact?
 What is concept?
 What is theory?
 What is law?
Relationship among aims, goal and
objectives

What is relationship
among aims, goal and
objectives?
CONTENT
 CONTENT

What is the difference

between content and
knowledge?
 Content
Facts, observations, data, perception,
sensibility, design, and solution drawn from
what the mind have comprehend from
experience and those constructs of the mind
that reorganize and rearrange these products
of experience into idea, concept,
generalization, principle, plants and solution
(Saylor and Alexander, 1966)
 Knowledge
Knowledge (i.e. facts, explanations,
principle, definitions), skill and
process, (i.e. reading, writing,
calculating, dancing, critical thinking,
decision making, communicating)
and values (i.e. belief about matter
concerned with good and bad, right
and wrong, beautiful and ugly)
 Criteria in Selecting Content
 Significance
 Utility
 Interest
 Human development : Scope,
sequence.
 EVALUATION

Assessment

Vs
Evaluation
 EVALUATION

Measurement
Vs

Evaluation
 EVALUATION

Formative
Evaluation

Summative
Evaluation