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Definition of curriculum
All the learning which is planned
and guided by the school, whether it
is carried on in groups or
individually, inside or outside the
school.

Content is defined as “Information to be
learned in school, another term for
knowledge (a collection of facts,
concepts, generalization, principles,
theories)”
Definition of Content

Content comes in any form
(audio, text, and video) and it
informs, entertains, enlightens,
or teaches people who consume
it.
(Derek Halpern)
Definition of
Content

 Specificity
 Consistency
 Uniqueness
 Context
 Share-ability
Characteristics of content

 To help organize materials
 To help a sequential relationship of
material.
 To present material basic to a
general understanding of a course.
 To present application.
 To furnish a source of valuable
information.
Purposes of
Content

The content is:
United with the goals and objectives of
the basic education curriculum.
Responds to the needs of the learner.
Includes cognitive skill and affective
elements.
Fully and deeply covers the essential to
avoid the “mile-wide-and-inch-deep”
impression.
That is of use to the learners.
That is practical and achievable.

 Facts are basic in the structure of cognitive
subject matter. But content must go beyond
facts.
 Working out a process of conceptual
understanding means teaching and learning
beyond facts. This can be done by the use of
the thematic or the integrated approach.
 Subject matter content integrates the
cognitive, skill, and affective components.
 The cognitive content includes facts, concept,
principles, hypothesis, theories and laws.
 The skill component dwells on thinking skill
and manipulative skills.

Content Analysis:
“Content analysis is a research method
used to analyze learning by interpreting
words and images from documents, film,
art, music, and other cultural products
and media”

The ten step of content analysis are:
 Copy and read through the transcript - make brief
notes in the margin when interesting or relevant
information is found
 Go through the notes made in the margins and list
the different types of information found
 Read through the list and categorized each item in
a way that offers a description of what it is about
 Identify whether or not the categories can be linked
any way and list them as major categories (or
themes) and / or minor categories (or themes)
 Compare and contrast the various major and minor
categories
Steps of Content Analysis

 If there is more than one transcript, repeat the
first five stages again for each transcript
 When you have done the above with all of the
transcripts, collect all of the categories or
themes and examine each in detail and consider
if it fits and its relevance
 Once all the transcript data is categorized into
minor and major categories/themes, review in
order to ensure that the information is
categorized
 Review all of the categories and ascertain
whether some categories can be merged or if
some need to them be sub-categorized
 Return to the original texts and ensure that all
the information that needs to be categorized are
done

Strengths:
Content analysis has several strengths as a research method:
 It is a great method because it is unobtrusive. it has no
effect on the person being studied since the cultural
artifact has already been produced.
 It is relatively easy to gain access to the media source or
publication the researcher wishes to study.
 It can present an objective account of events, themes, and
issues that might not be immediately apparent to a
reader, viewer, or general consumer.
Strengths and Weaknesses of content
analysis:

Weaknesses:
Content analysis also has several weaknesses as a
research method.
 It is limited in what it can study. Since it is based only
on mass communication – visual, oral, or written – it
cannot tell us what people really think about these
images or whether they affect people’s behavior.
 It may not be as objective as it claims since the
researcher must select and record data accurately. In
some cases, the researcher must make choices about
how to interpret or categorize particular forms of
behavior and other researchers may interpret it
differently.
 A final weakness of content analysis is that it can be
time consuming

Criteria for selection of content
Following principles are followed:
 Validity
 Significance
 Balance
 Self-sufficiency
 Interest
 Utility
 Feasibility

Balance:
Articulation:
Sequence:
Principles for selection of
contents

 Balance:
Content curriculum should be fairly
distributed in depth and breadth of the
particular learning are or discipline. This will
ensure that the level or area will not be
overcrowded or less crowded.
 Articulation:
Each level of subject matter should be
smoothly connected to the next, glaring gaps
or wasteful overlaps in the subject matter will
be avoided.

 Sequence:
This is the logical arrangement of the subject
matter. It refers to the deepening and broadening
of content as it is taken up in the higher levels.
• Integration: The horizontal
connections are needed in subject
areas that are similar so that learning
will be related to one another.
• Continuity: The constant repetition,
review and reinforcement of learning
are what are referred to as
Continuity.

 Students come to have a more realistic idea of what
can be achieved in a given course.
 Learning comes to be seen as a process of gradually
reaching achievable goals.
 Students develop greater sensitivity to their role as
learner, and their rather vague notions of what it is to
be a learner can become much sharper.
 Self-evaluation becomes more feasible.
 Classroom activity can be seen to relate to the
learner’s real-life needs.
 To development of competences can be seen as a
gradual, rather than an all-or-nothing process.
Content Selection in Student-Centered
Curriculum

Aims for selecting content
 To provide students with effective learning
strategies.
 To assist students to identify their preferred
ways of learning.
 To develop skill needed to negotiate the
curriculum.
 To encourage students to set their own
objectives.
 To encourages students to adopt realistic goals
and time frames.
 To develop the students skills of/ by self-
evaluation.

Procedures for selection of
content
The Judgmental Procedure
The Experimental Procedure
The Analytical Procedure
The consensual Procedure

The curriculum worker’s judgment hardly
leads to the best selection of subject matter.
The most “objective” selection of content by
this procedure requires that his interests,
knowledge, and ideals rise above special social
groups and embrace the common good. In
short, this procedure perhaps more than any
other method of content selection-demands
broad social vision and freedom from the
restricting influences of partisan
rationalization.
Judgemental Procedure

Phases of the Judgmental Procedure
 What social and educational objectives
should be accepted?
 What is the existing state of affairs in which
these objectives are considered desirable and
appropriate, and in which they must be
realized?
 What subject matter best satisfies these
objectives under the existing condition?

Experimental Procedure
The General Pattern of Experimentation:
 A hypothesis, that is, an idea to be tried out
 Control of the conditions of the try-out
 An objective account of the results
 Checking the result against the hypothesis to
find whether or not the hypothesis is true.

 Tentative selection of subject matter in accordance
with a criterion.
 Hypothesis that the tentatively selected subject
matter meets the conditions of the criterion
 Prescribed conditions of the try-out (description of
children, teacher, classroom, methods of teaching,
materials to be used, and other factors affecting the
experiment).
 Objective techniques for determining the result
 Checking the results against the hypothesis to find
whether or not the subject matter satisfies the
criterion.
Forms of experimental
procedure:

The analytical procedure is one of the
most widely known methods of content
selection. It has been closely identified
with the criterion of utility, although it has
been used with other criterion. In general,
it consists of an analysis of the things
people do in order to discover the subject
matter functioning in these activities
Analytical Procedure

There are three forms of the analytical procedure
 First is activity analysis in which the purpose is to
discover the general kinds of activities engaged in by
people of a given national group or region.
 Second job analysis is activity analysis applied to
vocational opportunities. To determine what should
be taught in the professional preparation of teachers.
 Third form of this procedure is simply the analysis
to determine the generally useful knowledge and
skills.
Forms of Analytical Procedure

 Interviewing
 Working on the Job
 Analysis of the job or activity by
the worker
 Questionnaire
 Documentary Analysis:
 Observing the Performance of
People:
Techniques of Analytical Procedure

The consensual procedure is a way of collecting
people’s opinion about what they believe the
curriculum should be. The three procedure just
described represent investigations into the
content of activity, objects of interest, and
conflict of ideas and prejudices. The result of
this procedure are expressed in terms of the
number of persons, or per cent of persons, of a
particular community or group who believe that
such and such should be taught in the school.
Consensual
Procedure

Aspects of Consensual
Procedure
 Outstanding leaders in the field of industry,
business, agriculture, labor, and in the social
life of the community.
 Expert and specialist such as physician,
engineers, teachers, artist, and musician.
 Represent activity of the population of a
community or region.

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