The curriculum would be more in the nature of a problem-solving curriculum. In this respect, the curriculum evolves out of the ongoing experience of the pupil. The progressive will not begin with a set sequence or a course of study. He or she speaks about building or constructing a curriculum. In the progressive school there is no indoctrination.
Experiences are the curriculum.
To a child the curriculum is a new body of experience to be achieved. There are three present day methods which seem to stand out in the school of progressivism. The problem method. The second method, which Kilpatrick used, was based on the assumption of the problem and centered its interests in the relationship of a project. The third method, essentially used by the pragmatist, was the method of trial and error or experimentation by exercise.