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Define the term curriculum

Define the term curriculum

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John

Curriculum is defined as “All the learning which is planned and guided by the school, whether it is carried on in groups or individually, inside or outside the school (Kelly 1999).”



Key features
- Learning is planned and guided. We have to specify in advance what we are seeking to achieve and how we are to go about it.
Cole(2003) defines curriculum as a policy statement about education and the ways of realizing the policy through a programme of action.

Oluoch (2006) explains curriculum as all that is planned to enable the student acquire and develop desired knowledge, skills and attitudes.

Saylor and Alexander (1974) define curriculum as a set of learning activities and experiences for children planned by the school to attain the aims of education.

On further analysis and consolidation of the above definitions of curriculum, it can be said that curriculum acts as a guide to the process of education. It gives lanes and boundaries to the process of education.
Some nations that are important in the understanding of curriculum include:

a) Planned learning programme with activities, experiences, materials and resources.

b) Useful in the acquisition of knowledge skills, values and attitudes.

c) Aims at attaining the goals and objectives of education.

d) Contains Content to be covered, learning experiences, methodology and ways and means of ascertaining whether educational goals are achieved

johnmulu answered the question on June 17, 2017 at 08:12

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