The history
of the curriculum also explains the teacher psychology at different time and
how to improve their teaching styles. The history also provides a detail about
the learner behavior at different times. It also provides information about the
psychology of the students, how they learn and what they want to learn. In
times curriculum changed its shapes and patterns from teacher center curriculum
to learner center curriculum due to the long history of the curriculum development
process from Plato to modern curriculum. the history of the curriculum also
changed the teaching methods, now every researcher are finding new ways to
teach and it is also becoming the part of curriculum an history.
Today
majority of the develop countries are those countries who have a long history
of freedom and proper education system. They achieved their successes through
education and implementation of time needed curriculum. They modified their
curriculum according to the need of time. Some of newly born countries also achieved
that status because they adopted successful model of other developed countries
and modified according to their own needs and culture.
History
Guides future plans
The
history of the curriculum guides the future plans because curriculum is always
based on the future demands of the country and the lesson learned through
history, tell the curriculum developer not to repeat the mistake of the past
and develop a curriculum which is based on the future need of the society and
international demands. History is the profile of past successes and
failures.
