Understanding Curriculum: What I Have Learned?
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Curriculum Development
Curriculum is a vital part of all education systems
Education helps in the knowledge, skills, and attitude transfer.
The transfer occurs from one generation to the other.
Thus, curriculum helps in the selection of education components to transfer to the future generation.
Teachers need proper understanding of the curriculum.
Curriculum serves as a guide to the education system.
Defining Curriculum
There are two approaches of defining curriculum.
They include descriptive and prescriptive definitions.
The prescriptive definition details what curriculum should entail in schools.
Descriptive definition details how curriculum is in schools.
Prescriptive Definition
Curriculum involves revamping of the learner’s experience.
It’s aim is to achieve the organized state of truth.
Curriculum also involves the child’s preparation to meet and control life situations.
It also include all the learning experiences that the school plan and direct.
Descriptive Definition
It defines curriculum as everything received and assimilated by the learner to shape their future.
Curriculum refers to the learner’s interaction with the knowledge, teacher, and environment.
Everything that changes the experience and knowledge of students.
Categories of Curriculum
Written curriculum
Assessed curriculum
Taught curriculum
Recommended curriculum
Supported curriculum
Hidden Curriculum
Learned Curriculum, and
Excluded curriculum
Foundations of Curriculum
These are factors impacting on the curriculum developers’ minds.
These factors influence the components included in the curriculum structure.
There are four significant foundations of curriculum.
They include philosophical, psychological, historical, and sociological foundations (Chiang, 2017).
The curriculum developers must consider these foundation when developing curriculum.
Eras of Curriculum Development
There are four distinct eras of curriculum development.
The first was the evolutionary era.
It occurred around 1600 AD (Hallberg, 2018).
The colonial era was the second in curriculum development around 1700.
The modern era occurred from 18th century to 19th century.
Currently, curriculum development is in the post modern era.
The period began around the 20th century.
Curriculum Planning
It is the process of deciding on the content to learn in schools.
Curriculum planning also considers the reasons for learning those contents.
The process involves listing of the requirements plus the available resources.
The process can include the framework and syllabus to study in schools.
It can further refer to course development and assessment plans.
Teachers can further develop learning units and lesson plan in classroom level.
Curriculum Development
It involves several stages amounting to about six.
The first stage is the needs assessment.
Curriculum development or revision comes second.
It continues to the stage of material selection
There is also an assessment development stage.
Curriculum implementation occurs after assessment.
Program evaluation comes last (Bhuttah et al., 2019).
Conclusion
The study discussed various factors in curriculum development.
The factors helped in understanding curriculum development properly.
It highlighted the history of curriculum development.
It also discussed the curriculum foundations.
The curriculum planning is another essential factor considered in the study.
Finally, curriculum development involve 6 critical stages that demand vital attention.
References
Hallberg, P. (2018). Curriculum Adaptation in Eras of Transformation by Utilizing A CDIO Enabling Platform. In 14th International CDIO Conference, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Kanazawa, Japan, June 28-July 2, 2018..
Chiang, H. M. (2017). Foundations and development of curriculum. In Curricula for teaching students with autism spectrum disorder (pp. 1-19). Springer, Cham.
Bhuttah, T. M., Xiaoduan, C., Ullah, H., & Javed, S. (2019). Analysis of Curriculum Development Stages from the Perspective of Tyler, Taba and Wheeler. European Journal of Social Sciences, 58(1), 14-22.
