Examine the importance of teachers' participation in curriculum development

Abstract

Curriculum has an essential importance in the field of Education. It is the most basic and foremost part of one’s Education and learning. Had there been no concept of curriculum, people would have been confused and misguided as to what to study and learn at what time. There would not have been any sequence of objectives and aims to be fulfilled for students’ learning. For the development of curriculum, there are many people who work together. There is always a special curriculum development committee with their core capabilities in the domain of curriculum designing. Having many different stakeholders for the process of curriculum development, this paper specifically highlights the critical analysis of importance of teachers’ participation in the curriculum development process. Not only in Pakistan, there are different contexts like South Africa, India and Turkey where the issue of applicability of curriculum into the classroom is found out. This paper is based on the critical commentary in which the first part of it discusses the general concept of curriculum and its development. Besides, it also discusses a bit of teachers’ involvement into the process along with mentioning rational and objectives   of paper. The 2nd part of the paper critically analyses the previous researches which has talked about significance of teachers’ involvement in curriculum development process. Moreover, it has then touched to specific discussion of teachers’ involvement by moving forward to the encounters that teachers face in curriculum development process. Continuing on the same pace, it has then discussed how can teachers be prepared to put in their contribution in the beginning phase of development since they are not only supposed to work for implementation phase. Other than this, in the next part, the overall discussion has been concluded with author’s own stance regarding the topic. In the last part, some of the recommendations have been given to curriculum development authorities or committees to involve teachers in the process accurately so that the quality of education can be improved. Also, it will add to the improved interaction between the committee of teachers when they will work for the same cause.