Course-5 Understanding Disciplines and School Subjects pmd

Concentric Approach
In this approach the whole curriculum is spread over a number of years.  Quite often
a general treatment of almost all the topics are attempted at the beginning and it is developed
in successive year according to the mental development of the pupil in the beginning in the
simplified way.  In the next years more and more details of its parts are gradually added.  It
follows the maxims of teaching such as form whole to part simple to complex easy to
difficult etc.  Among educationalists of modern times Bruner is the main exponent of this
approach as he thinks that discovery learning is only possible only if this approach is
maintained and this approach is referred to as concentric approach.
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