Exploring Children’s Developmental Stages and Preparation of a Framework for Comprehensive and Creative Curriculum

Abstract

This paper examines the overall child development and approaches to child development and suggested a framework for constructing a curriculum that enhance the whole child learning process relevance to learning theories. In addition to assess the child activities in and out of the classroom and school. It has been examined from the developmental approaches of child that it is essential to concern the theories and approaches to child development for making a framework of creative and comprehensive curriculum. The theories and approaches of Jean Piaget, Bruner, Erikson and Hoffnung have discussed in the paper. Generally three major domains of development (Physical, cognitive, and psychosocial) are discussed in relevance to above mentioned psychologists. Concerning upon the stages and development of child a framework for comprehensive curriculum has made. Furthermore, the paper suggested the construction of Child-centered curriculum. In construction of the curriculum, the content and material required for comprehensive curriculum has been added in the paper. The very first thing is to make it research and theories based, a good curriculum must have specific goals and objectives, the interest level of children should be observed first and include materials afterword, the role of the teacher, family engagement and concerning the disable children are the main considerations of comprehensive and creative curriculum.