MODELS OF CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT Meaning and Concept of Curriculum The curriculum is the heart of schooling, the education process. Education and curriculum are two sides of the same coin. While education is a process curriculum is a means to the process. While education deals with how and when, curriculum deals with what. While education is a product currciulum is the plan. All resources available at school ie. the school buildings,equipments,varieties of instructional materials like books, softwares and hardware exist for just one purpose - for supporting effective implementation of curriculum. The entire set of educational activities the curricular,co-curricular and extra-curricular activiites as well as the organization of teaching - learning strategy and the evaluation schedule flow from the school curriculum. The term curriculum means the total situation selected and made available to the teacher to operate and to translate t...