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Curriculum Design: Concepts of curriculum · Defining Curriculum

How the major definitions of curriculum differ, from content and plan to product, process, praxis and lived experience, and what each implies for teaching.

Curriculum Design · 27 questions

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1. Why do the words "curriculum" and "curriculum vitae" share a name?

  1. Both were coined by medieval universities
  2. Both originally meant a list of credentials
  3. Both describe a course one runs through
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Answer: Both describe a course one runs through

Curriculum comes from the Latin currere, to run: a racecourse. A curriculum vitae is the "course of a life", just as a school curriculum is a course of study.

2. A teacher hands out a document listing one course's topics, readings and exam dates. Which term fits it best?

  1. A syllabus
  2. A learning standard
  3. A curriculum framework
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Answer: A syllabus

A syllabus outlines a single course's content and schedule. Curriculum is broader: the whole set of intended learning across courses, years and experiences.

3. Lawrence Stenhouse argued that a curriculum is best understood as what?

  1. A fixed list of measurable objectives
  2. A blueprint for national examinations
  3. A proposal to be tested in classrooms
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Answer: A proposal to be tested in classrooms

Stenhouse saw a curriculum as a hypothesis that teachers test and refine in practice, not a finished specification handed down to them.

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