Curriculum Development: Importance, Analysis, and Improvements

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This essay talks about curriculum development from a critical angle. The first section
of the essay throws lights on the definition and elaboration of the importance of curriculum
development in the 21 st century. The next section of the essay critically analyses a
curriculum named ‘ITC0107 Basic Concepts of Information and Communication Technology
(ICT) Qualification Outline’. This is an outcome-based curriculum for teaching information
technology. The purpose of this study is to discuss about the contents of the curriculum with
reference to the design and model it follows. The final section of this essay suggests some
improvements for the curriculum.
Curriculum development
The term Curriculum development refers to the planned, progressive, and systematic
and purposeful procedure to make positive changes in educational system. In other words,
curriculum is the design or course structure that helps students to become successful learners
and achieve the required skills. Teachers or education professionals develop and use
curriculum when they are concerned about the topic to teach the students, it’s sequence and
stipulated time that should be taken to make the students learn the topic. Curriculum also
gives the teacher an idea about what the rubrics should be. Curriculum contains the time and
structures of the lecture on textbook pieces, assessing the capability of the students to
remember whatever he or she has learnt from the lessons, and their prudency in relating the
course lecture with the real-life examples.
Importance
Curriculum development can be considered as an essential part in learning and
teaching. Any educational institution which is involved in the process of enlightening
students need to acquaint the students with the happenings of the world around them. This
indicates to the need to update the Curriculums of educational institutions like schools,

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colleges and training centers according to the changing needs of the society and world as a
whole.
If curriculum development is looked at broader perspective it can be realized that it is
not only concerned with the school or teacher or learners but also make provision for the
development of society in general.
Experts believe that there should be a chain of developmental procedures to nourish
and refine a society. Curriculum of schools, high schools or universities can be considered as
the first step to do it. According to educationists, schools are the manufacturers of responsible
citizens of the future. In order to form a better society, the future generation who will be
taking the responsibility to foster necessary changes in the society, should be well aware of
the, national identity and economy of a country they live in. A curriculum provides a plan or
layout which depicts how the students who will be the responsible citizens in future can be
awaken and informed about the national identity of a country they are citizens of.
Moreover, the curriculum shows how the students of the schools or universities
should be acquainted with the current political, social and economic scenario and the agents
accelerating the changes, in politics, economy and society. The curriculum also makes
provision for the assessment of the learning of the students about the socio-political as well as
economic scenario. In this context curriculum also suggest the encounter of a student with
real life issues related to, social economic or political situation of their home country as well
as the world. These real-life issues are often related to the environment, of poverty, climate
change, sustainable development. The learning structure depicted in a curriculum also gives a
student brief idea about the solutions of such issues. Thus, curriculum play an important role
in the formation of the opinion of the students about social economic and political
background, growth, stability, vision of the country as well as the world they live in.