Chapter 4 (Approaches)

• System Approach


  School is perceived as a social system
• Behavioral Approach


  Curriculum making is a sequential and structured activity
• Academic Approach


  Focus on theories and ideas behind a subject
• Humanistic Approach

  Every students are unique
• Postmodern Approach


  Extends the humanistic approach and concerned with change and reform
• Reconceptualist Approach


  Curriculum is viewed from a broad ideological perspective and is rooted in philosophy and social activism of deconstructionists
• Managerial Approach


  rooted in organizational and administrative school model