The productive involvement of students in curriculum development can lead to greater student interest in and satisfaction with learning. The dominant view in education today is that students are disruptive agents in the learning process, liable to interrupt teaching for their own purposes. This view results in a learning environment where the teacher lectures or students prepare written assignments. An opposite view is that students are agents that can and must modify lesson content according to their own predilections, perceptions, and attitudes. These two views represent the endpoints of a continuum on which teachers take varying viewpoints and shifting positions. Research has shown that students prefer classroom activities that require their active involvement. Given this, it should be the role of the teacher to facilitate the positive participation of the students as curriculum developers to such an extent that the students become lifelong learners, able to use their minds to think, explore, analyze, and evaluate the instruction they receive. (LP)