Types of Curriculum

Types of Curriculum

1. Overt, Explicit or Written Curriculum

   • This is a curriculum that is written as part of formal instruction of schooling experience.
     • It may refer to a curriculum document, texts, films and supportive teaching materials that are overtly chosen to support the intended instructional agenda of the school.
       • It is usually confined to those written understandings and directions formally designated and reviewed by administrators, curriculum directors and teachers, often collectively.

2. Societal Curriculum

   • refers to the massive, ongoing, informal curriculum of family, peer group, neighborhoods, churches organizations, mass media and other socializing forces that “educate” all of us throughout our lives.

3. The Hidden or Covert Curriculum

   • This is used to refer to the structure and nature of school, the learning that derives from the very nature and organizational design of the public school as well as the behaviors and attitudes of teachers and administrators

4. The Null Curriculum

   • refers to what the schools do not teach, thus giving students the message that these elements are not important in their educational experiences or in their society.
     • It is necessary to consider, not only what schools do not teach but also what they neglect to teach. Examples of exclusion: economics, law, psychology, anthropology etc.

5. Phantom Curriculum

   • This refers to the messages prevalent in and through exposure to any type of media.
     • These components and messages play a major part in the enculturation of students into the predominant meta-culture, or in acculturating students into narrower or generational subcultures.

6. Concomitant Curriculum

   • This is what is taught or emphasized at home or those experiences or related experiences sanctioned by the family.
     • This type of curriculum may be received at church, in the context of religious expression, lessons values, ethics or morals, molded behaviors, or social experiences based on the family’s preferences

7. Received Curriculum

   • This refers to those things that students actually take out of classroom. those concepts and content that are truly learned and remembered.

8. The Internal Curriculum

   • Refers to those processes, content, knowledge combined with the experiences and realities of the learners to create new knowledge

9. The Electronic Curriculum

   • Refers to those lessons learned through searching the internet for information, or through using e-forms of communication
     • Students who use the internet on regular basis are challenged with all types of media and messages
       • Much of this information may be factual correct, informative or even entertaining or inspirational but other information may very incorrect, outdated, biased, perverse or manipulative.