Tyler, R.W. 1969. Basic Principles of curriculum and Instruction. Chicago: The University of the Chicago Press
http:www.infed.orgbibliob-curric.htm. http:pages.nyu.edu~asr209curriculum.doc
http:www.cast.orgudlEnvisioningFutureCurriculum189.cfm
Suggested Input
1. Curriculum:
1.1. The planned and guided learning experiences and intended learning
outcomes, formulated through the systematic reconstruction of knowledge and experiences, under the auspices of the school, for the learners’ continous and
willful growth in personal social competence. 1.2.
The curriculum of a school can be conceived as a series of planned events that are intended to have educational consequences for one or more students
1.3. Curriculum is all the learning experiences planned and directed by the school
to attain its educational goals 1.4.
Curriculum is the plan made for guiding learning in the school usually represented in retrievable documents of several levels of generality, and the
actualization of those plans in the classroom, as experienced by the learners and as recorded by the observer; those experiences take place in a learning
environment which also influences what is learned.
2. Hidden Curriculum
2.1. It lies outside the official organizational context of teaching. It is taught
implicitly rather than explicitely, by the school experience. 2.2.
It consists of the unwritten rules, conventions, folkways and values of the culture known as school. It is shaped by factors like socioeconomic status and
background experiences of the teachers and students
3. Recommended Curriculum
The curriculum recommended by scholars, professional associations, reform commissions and policy makers
4 Written Curriculum
The curriculum embodied in approved state and district curriculum guides 5 Supported
Curriculum
The curriculum reflected in and shaped by resources allocated to support or deliver it 6
Taught Curriculum
The curriculum that an observer would see in action as the teacher taught
7. Tested Curriculum
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The set of learnings assessed in teacher-made tests, district developed tests and standardized tests
8. Learned Curriculum
All the changes in values, perceptions and behaviour that occur as a result of school experience.
9. Futuristic Curriculum