Postmodern Landmarks and Innovative Approaches in the Design, Implementation and Development of the Optional Curriculum

The article addresses the issue of the methodology for designing, implementing and evaluating the optional curriculum, based on the orientations of the postmodern curriculum and from the perspective of curricular flexibility and the operationalization of the curricular integration model at the school level. In this sense, the two parts of the article are correlated and integrated into the issue addressed, through the unity between the scientific foundations analyzed in the first part and the presentation, in the second part, of the process and results of an investigation regarding the optional curriculum. The first part of the article analyzes the characteristics of the postmodern curriculum and the integrated curriculum, as well as the curricular models that underlie the methodologies adopted and flexibilized at the school level, in the curricular project. Thus, curricular decentralization, the subjective dimension of educational processes, the competency-centered curricular design model, methodological models of curricular design and management arehighlighted and correlated. The second part, focused on the investigative approach, analyzes the research process through references to objectives, hypotheses, the instrument used - the opinion questionnaire, the relationships between variables, the relevance andsignificance of the results obtained. Also, directions for expanding the study of the issue are advanced, within the framework of further research, of an experimental nature.