Negotiated Curriculum Model: A New Strategy for Decentralizing Secondary Level Curricula

The purpose of this article is to explore the concept of negotiated curriculum and to investigate its role in the process of decentralizing secondary school curriculum.By definition, this design of curriculum involves students in the deliberating policy and program development. Students‘ role, in other words, is not limited to the implementation or enactment phase. The main questions that have guided author‘s pursuit in writing this essay are as follows: How could secondary curriculum be designed to ensure responsiveness to the issues and challenges that are faced by students?How could this model of curriculum contribute to the decentralization process atthe secondary leve