Curriculum: Hidden Curriculum Recommended Curriculum Tested Curriculum Learned Curriculum

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

12 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