The curriculum

The curriculum

1. Definition

   • It is the planning by which the school processes of learning are organized

2. Problems

   • STENHOUSE: failure existing between ideas and aspirations
   • TYLER: its limited sense

3. Different conceptions

   • Different fundamental sections
     • Curriculum as in interaction reality
       • It includes all the educational experiences from which the school is responsible
       • A construction made between teachersh and students
         • A way of communication between them
       • An integral part in which the studentsthe cultural content and environment are in dynamic interaction
     • Points out the ideal framework in which the educational labour will be developed
     • Determines the actions and decissions on it
     • The result of putting into practice the prescriptions of the planned curriculum
     • Curriculum as a content
       • Contents of education
         • Educational experience that the schools brings
         • Educational subjects, teh learning of each can be achieved by a simple act, by the specified capabilities of the previous units
         • Specific learning, the classification of learning according to concepts, procedures and attitudes
         • Learning objectives which are specified and have to be achieved by the students
         • Interactive reality, appart from cpntents, also all those meanings, behaviour patterns, moral values, ect.
       • Every curriculum must include a cultural knowledge, if not, it is not useful for the school
     • curriculum as planning
       • Pints out the ideal framework in which the educational labour will be developed
       • Determines the actions and decissions on it
       • The result of putting into practice the prescriptions of the planned curriculum
       • Program for students to achieve certain goals

4. Between

   • Representation
     • Curriculum as concepts
     • Ways of thinking, knowing and explaining the world
     • Determined by the culture of society
   • Action
     • Action and educative practice
     • Interactive reallity