Problem Centered

Problem-based curricula provide a learning environment in which competence is fostered not primarily by teaching to impart knowledge, but through encouraging an inquisitive style of learning.

Preliminary discussion in small groups, contextual learning, integration of knowledge and an emphasis on patient problems, have several cognitive effects on student learning.

These effects are increased retention of knowledge, enhancement of integration of basic science concepts into clinical problems, the development of self-directed learning skills, and the enhancement of students' intrinsic interest in the subject matter. In this paper a number of studies will be reviewed that provide empirical evidence for these premises.

problem-centered approach provides a vehicle to achieve the goals and objectives identified in the curriculum. Evidence from research and international studies suggests that our students are proficient in procedures but do not have the conceptual understanding to solve problems.

The world they will live and work in will require them to gather, organize, and interpret data in the process of finding solutions to complex problems. It would seem only logical to provide a classroom setting where they will face similar issues. In the real world, the problems they face will not be ones for which they are selecting answers from a set of multiple choices.

1.prior to arrival of students, but willing to adjust to fit needs of students

2.Problem can beinterdisciplinary

3. Life situations

4. core designs

5. social problem/reconstructionist designs

6.Social problems, social reconstructionism; educators potentially affect social

7. change through curriculum development

8.Engages learner in analyzing severe problems facing mankind

9. Furthering the good of society

Broad-fields Curriculum

Broad field curriculum is a kind of curriculum that covers a number of specified areas within an academic year. This type of curriculum covers both field work and project work.

Field curriculum is a course of study that has recently developed and is gaining increasing popularity. It involves filed work and projects that give the student a more practical type of knowledge as opposed to theory.

Referred to as "SURVEY" or "GENERAL" courses and are directed toward those students who do not intend to continue in an area of study. The goal of this design is to reduce the propensity that students in subject-centered curricula had for memorizing fragmented facts. It will solve the problem by broadening such subjects as history, geography and civics into a curriculum category-social studies. It is an attempt to use an integration of traditional subjects to help students develop broad understanding in all areas.

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Karren c. Perolina