Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to compare the traditional "Lehrplan Forschung" with "Curriculum Research" in 1970s in West Germany. "Lehrplan Forschung" and "Curriculum Research" are regarded as the two basic modells in curriculum history. Today, the researchers of these two research models make exchange. In this paper, I focused on Erich Weniger's "Lehrplan" theory, "exemplarische" method, and "kategoriale Bildung" theory as examples of "Lehrplan Forschung". Then, I compared them with Karl-Heinz Flechsig's "Curriculum Research" as an example of "Curriculum Research". As a result, the following are claryfied. Traditional "Lehrplan Forschung" aimed to select instructional contents to lead children toward the world and to open the children's world. In contrast to "Lehrplan Forschung", Flechsig's "Curriculum Research" focused on the procedures of curriculum development, based empirical science.
