Models of the curriculum-instruction Relationships
Dualistic model. Figure 1.1 depicts the dualistic model. Curriculum sits on one side and instruction on the other and never the twain shall meet. Between the two entities lies a great gulf. What takes place in the classroom under the direction of the teacher seems to have little relationship to what the master plan says should go on in the classroom. The planners ignore the instructors and in turn are ignore by them. Discussions of curriculum are divorced from their practical application to the classroom. Under this model the curriculum and the instructional process may change without significantly affecting one another.