WHAT IS CURRICULUM?

WHAT IS CURRICULUM?

1. DEFINITION

   • Curriculum is a statement of what students should know, be able to do , how it is taught, how it is measured, and how the educational system is organised.
   • The word originated from Latin word "currere" which means career.

2. THE HIDDEN CURRICULUM

   • The term was coined by the sociologist Philip Jackson
   • It deals with socio-psychological interaction among students, teachers, and administrators, especially in relation to their feeling, attitudes and behaviors.

3. CURRICULUM APPROACHES

   • CURRICULUM AS CONTENT
     • It is considered as the body of knowledge to be transmitted.
     • It is a concise document listing the topics of a subject.
   • CURRICULUM AS PRODUT
     • It is view as the learning outcomes desired of learners.
     • It will show the abilities, attitudes, habits, appreciations and forms of knowledge that man need.
   • CURRICULUM AS PROCESS
     • It is what actually happens in the classroom when the curriculum is practiced.
     • It is seems as the interaction of teachers, students and knowledge.

4. FOUNDATIONS OF CURRICULUM

   • The design and development of curriculum involved curriculum planners, developers, teachers, academicians, education officers, administrators, and many others.
     • They decided the content, the goals, how it should be organized, how it should be taught, and how determine if efforts have been successful.
   • Philosophy, psychology, sociology and history.
     • It helps to identify beliefs as how people should be educated, how humans learn, what society wants and desires and how and why curriculum changes with the evolution of society.

5. CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT

   • it is a process invoiving many different people and procedures.
     • curriculum planning
       • It involves decisions about philosophy of education and the aims of education.
     • curriculum design
       • It refers to the way curriculum is conceptualized, the selection and organization of content and learning experiences or activities.
     • curriculum implementation
       • It involves getting people to practice the ideas in the curriculum, providing resources, training and encouragement.
     • curriculum evaluation
       • It involves identification of factors that have hindered implementation and if students have benefit form the programme.

6. CURRICULUM AS A DISCIPLINE

   • It has an organised set of theatrical principles; it includes a body of knowledge and skills and has its theoreticians and its practitioners.

7. CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION

   • There is a relation between curriculum and instruction, which is independent, continuous, repeated an never-ending. it means that it is put into practice what has been planned.

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