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UNIT 1: The Concept of Curriculum � Introduction As a teacher, you need to know what curriculum means in order to: • Relate education to the socio-economic, technological, political and environmental demands of your society. • Relate content or the body of knowledge to your local setting. • Apply the most effective and relevant teaching and learning methodologies. • Evaluate teaching and learning processes in your education system. Content This unit will cover the following topics: • definition of curriculum, • curriculum perspectives, and • elements of curriculum. Objectives After completing this unit, you should be able to: 1. Define curriculum. 2. Explain curriculum perspectives. 3. Discuss elements of curriculum. Definition of Curriculum From your experience, define the term ‘curriculum’. Now, compare your definition with the following given by scholars in the subject area. A curriculum is a “plan or program of all experiences which the learner encounters under the direction of a school” (Tanner and Tanner, 1995: 158). According to Gatawa (1990: 8), it is “the totality of the experiences of children for which schools are responsible”. All this is in agreement with Sergiovanni and Starrat (1983), who argue that curriculum is “that which a student is supposed to encounter, study, practice and master… what the student learns”. For others such as Beach and Reinhatz (1989: 97), a curriculum outlines a “prescribed series of courses to take”. Module 13, Unit 1: The Concept of Curriculum 7
� From the definitions above, it is possible to state that a curriculum has the following characteristics: • It comprises the experiences of children for which the school is responsible. • It has content. • It is planned. • It is a series of courses to be taken by students. In addition, a curriculum considers the learners and their interaction with each other, the teacher and the materials. The output and outcomes of a curriculum are evaluated. Bringing all these points together, the curriculum is viewed as a composite whole including the learner, the teacher, teaching and learning methodologies, anticipated and unanticipated experiences, outputs and outcomes possible within a learning institution. Self-Assessment 1 The head of a village school decided to change the school timetable. The new timetable is shown below. Study it and answer the questions that follow it. (See the school timetable on the following page.) Module 13, Unit 1: The Concept of Curriculum 8
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