Life Situation Design
Persistent life situations are crucial to a society’s successful functioning; it makes sense to organize a curriculum around them
Students will see direct relevance to what they are studying if the content is organized around aspects of community life
By having students study social or life situations, they not only study ways to improve society but become directly involved in that improvement
Notes:
- Focus on problem solving procedures for learning
- Uses the past and current experiences of learners as a means of getting them to analyze the basic areas of living
- Presents subject matter in an integrated from by cutting across the separate subjects and centering on related categories of social life
- Determining the scope and sequence of essential areas of living is difficult
- Does not adequately expose students to their cultural heritage
- Teachers lack adequate preparation