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This study sets out to explore the learner-related motives that bring about teachers’ curriculum developments; and the relationship between these motives and teachers’ different curriculum approaches (curriculum-transmitter/ curriculum- developer/ curriculum-maker) and effective teaching. Social constructivism underlies the research theoretical underpinnings. The research design capitalises solely on the qualitative paradigm that connects the research theory (constructivism), strategy (case studies), data collection instruments (interviews and participant observation) and data analysis technique (grounded theory). The study concluded that learner-related motives, particularly student schematic, affective, pragmatic, and subject-content needs significantly drive teachers to achieve curriculum developments. Learner content styles (specifically, combined and unpredictable content styles) were also found to lead to teachers’ curriculum developments. The study found positive relationships between learner-related motives and the teacher curriculum-developer and curriculum-maker’s approaches and effective teaching. By \ contrast, negative relationships between learner-related motives and the teacher curriculum-transmitter’s approach and effective teaching were established. The study provides important recommendations for curriculum development, teacher education and future research.
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