Concept
Curriculum
Overview
totality of student experiences in an educational process; typically refers to a planned sequence of instruction incorporating content, materials, and evaluation methods; encompasses explicit, implicit, hidden, and extracurricular categories
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Methods and materials must be used which are in themselves vital enough to represent to the child the whole of this compact nature which constitutes his world. The child and the curriculum are two operative forces, both of them developing and reacting on each other. In visiting schools the things that are interesting and helpful to the average school teacher are the methods, and the curriculum, the way the pupils…
John Dewey, Schools of to-morrow
The chapter “THE REORGANIZATION OF THE CURRICULUM” is titled for Curriculum; states what Curriculum is.
In short, the grounds for assigning to play and active work a definite place in the curriculum are intellectual and social, not matters of temporary expediency and momentary agreeableness. Without something of the kind, it is not possible to secure the normal estate of effective learning; namely, that knowledge-getting be an outgrowth of activities having their own end, instead of a school task.
John Dewey, Democracy and Education
The chapter “Chapter Fifteen: Play and Work in the Curriculum” is titled for Curriculum; states what Curriculum is.
There are three main methods which are required in a national system of education, namely, the literary curriculum, the scientific curriculum, the technical curriculum. But each of these curricula should include the other two.
Alfred North Whitehead, The organisation of thought, educational and scientific
Names Curriculum several times; states what Curriculum is.
Philosophers who discussed Curriculum
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- Petrus Ramus
- Tertiary education
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Place in the tradition
Part of American philosophy.