ABSTRACT
Everyone responsible for planning a curriculum must address at least the following three questions:
1 What should be learned? 2 When should it be learned? 3 How is it best learned?
Responses to the first question provide the goals of the programme for which pedagogical practices are to be adopted. The second question is the developmental one in that it draws upon what is known about the development of the learner. In other words, child development helps to address the when questions of programme design. The third question turns specifically to matters of appropriate pedagogy itself; it includes consideration of all aspects of implementing a programme by which the programme’s goals can be achieved, depending, of course, on what is to be learned, and when it is to be learned. In other words, responses to one of the three questions are inextricably linked to responses to the other two.
