Definitions of Curriculum

Definition of Curriculum
A curriculum can be defined as a plan for
action or a written document that includes
strategies for achieving desired goals or ends

-Ralph Tyler & Hilda Taba
J.Galen Saylor defines curriculum as
as a plan for providing sets of learning
opportunities for persons to be educated.
Writes David Pratt, Curriculum is an organised
set of formal education and/or training
intentions.
Jon Wiles & Joseph Bondi view curriculum as a
four-step plan involving
purposedesignimplementation/and
assessment. The goal of the curriculum worker is
to see that the intent of a paln..[is] carried out
to the [fullest] degree possible.
Dewy,Caswell & Campbell view
curriculum as
all the experiences children have under the
guidance of teachers.
Humanistic curricularists & elementary school
curricularists subscribe to this defination.
Managerial & systems curricularists consider
curriculum as a system for dealing with people
and the processes or the organization of
personnel and procedures for implementing
that system.
Reid , Schubert and the Tanners
subscribe to the view that
curriculum can be viewed as a field of study,
comprising its own foundations and domains of
knowledge , as well as its own research , theory ,
and principles and its own specialists to interpret
this knowledge.

-The discussion of curriculum is usually scholarly
and theoretically and concerned with broad
historical , philosophical,or social issues.
Curriculum can be considered in terms of
subject matter
(Mathematics,Science,English,Historyand
so on) or content.
Beauchamp asserts that only definitions
involving a plan , system, and field of
study represent key or legitimate uses of
the word curriculum.
DEFINITIONS
CURRICULUM
1. The cumulative tradition of organized
knowledge
2. Modes of thought
3. Race experience
4. Guided experience
5. A Planned learning environment
6. Cognitive/affective content and process
7. An Instructional plan
8. An instructional ends or outcomes
9. A Technological system of production


(Tanner & Tanner 1980)
Curriculum emphases reflect changing
social policies
All of the courses offered in a school ,
college
Curriculum based on several content
sources and planned for different
purposes of education.

A conception of curriculum
* Implies a particular purpose of education
with appropriate content and
organization.
* Curriculum content- subject matter ,
needs of society & culture , and needs &
interests of learners.
Curriculum Conceptions,Purposes of
Education, and Content Sources.

Curriculum Models