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Curriculum: Definitions, Design, Types, and Learning Experiences

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Summary

A curriculum describes the learning planned or experienced through education. It can mean an official course of study, but it can also include the wider experiences that shape what students learn.

A curriculum may refer to the totality of student experiences in an educational process. In a narrower sense, it is a planned sequence of instruction connected to educational goals. It can include learning content, teaching materials, resources, activities, and ways of evaluating whether objectives have been achieved.

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What is a curriculum?
It may mean a planned sequence of instruction or, more broadly, the totality of student experiences in an educational process.
How does a curriculum differ from a syllabus?
A syllabus usually lists topics or content; a curriculum can also connect objectives, sequence, learning experiences, resources, and evaluation.
What is the explicit curriculum?
The subjects, knowledge, skills, and goals a school openly intends to teach.
What is the hidden curriculum?
Learning not overtly included in official plans that results from school organization and relationships.
What is the null curriculum?
Topics or perspectives that are left out of the curriculum.

Quiz questions

  1. An official education-system document states what students are expected to learn. Which curriculum dimension does it represent?Answer: Intended curriculum.
  2. In Smith’s seven-step curriculum-planning procedure, what follows selecting content?Answer: Organizing the content in a meaningful order.
  3. What characterizes a spiral curriculum?Answer: It revisits subject matter at later stages, extending earlier learning.
  4. A university requires students to take courses in specified fields but lets them choose particular courses within those fields. What kind of requirement is this?Answer: A distribution requirement.
  5. Which idea is associated with John Dewey’s view of learning?Answer: Ideas should be tested through application and reflective experience.

Based on the Wikipedia article Curriculum, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Adapted into a summary, flashcards and quizzes.

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