Since the modern educationists thinks of the curriculum in terms of the pupils activities, there can be three approaches to such desirable curriculum activities:

(i) Activities involved in handling the prescribed subject matter.

(ii) Activities based on the natural inclinations of the children, elaborating their impulses, needs and desires etc.

(iii) Activities leading to worth-while experiences. Thus the above three types of activities establish three theories of the curriculum based on-

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(a) Subject matter or imposition.

(b) Expression.

(c) Experience.