Meaning - Definition - Concept of curriculum - Structure of curriculum - Dynamics of curriculum - Changing concepts of curriculum.

Need for curriculum development - Principles and stages of curriculum development - Types of curriculum: Subject centered curriculum, student- centered curriculum, society-centered curriculum and life-centered curriculum-models of curriculum development: Tyler’s model and Hilda Tabal’s model.

Curriculum based on a thorough knowledge of the students and their communities; their values, their language, and their educational goals - Time table, syllabus, textbooks and co-curricular’ activities - a critical analysis of various samples of textbooks, children’s literature and teachers’ handbook.

Curriculum as an enacted process – curriculum as process and practices - Personnel participated in development of curriculum - Role of the state in the development of curriculum - curriculum from the top to down and curriculum for down to top - Meritocracy and its impact on curriculum - Valuing of rituals in schools and its celebrations - recreation of norms in society -relationship | between power, ideology and the curriculum.

Need-based curriculum - factors related to development and assessment - Meaning of hidden curriculum - Role of hidden curriculum in developing resilience i in children - - Teaching strategies for developing resilience in children. Curriculum revision and evaluation - Tyler's objective-centered evaluation model-Stufflebeam CIPP evaluation model -Curriculum and research- curriculum change and innovation - Need and importance