Curriculum Centered Approaches
- Subject Design - separate subjects
- Discipline Design - scholarly disciplines
- Broad-fields design - interdisciplinary subjects and disciplines
- Correlation design - Separate subjects, disciplines linked but identities maintained
- Process Design - Procedural knowledge; generic information and processing
Subject Design in the most relevant in the United States because it develops content and student interest, and it helps the process of specialization. However, it can be argued that the subject design uses too many ready-made resources such as textbooks. There is little room for differentiation, and it does not positively affect other needs like socialization.
All of these designs revolve around knowledge. They are heavily relevant to the essentialists, perennialists, and progressivists.