Abstract
Good curriculum plays a crucial role in forging life-long learning competencies, social attitudes and skills for the learners. Besides it is self-evident that, curriculum plays an important role in shaping a nation’s future. For obvious reasons, it has been the focal point of stakeholders’ interests for decades. Formulating an effective curriculum has been a decade-long pursuit for many nations’ education-history. For similar reasons countries like Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia stand at a historic threshold of decision making regarding their countries curriculum. Both the countries share some common challenges with respect to their curriculum development and implementation from the various sectors of society. All these education-challenges and..... all the experiences that occur within the school or other learning context- what is intended and what actually becomes a reality in the sphere of curriculum and teaching (Pinar, 2000) are the subjects of this paper.
Highlights
In recent years Saudi Arabia has been reforming its economy by a range of initiatives leading to a greater number of citizens participating in private sector investments
5.1.3 Dominant Western Values Saudi Arabia has adopted western curricula and pedagogy with the aim to open up society to the rest of the world
It is for this reason that the curricula, content and pedagogy are often not in tune with the needs of the learners who are rooted in local traditions and identity
Summary
Comparative Analysis Learners or society in a broad sense is the key and core of the curriculum. The central purpose of all the curriculum initiatives should be improvement of human competences as realized by Franklin Bobbit about a century ago: ‘Human life, varied, consists in the performance of specific activities. Education that prepares for life is one that prepares definitely and adequately for these specific activities’ (1918:42)
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