Talk:Curriculum

Fixed that for ya
I fixed this article for everyone and addressed as many issues as I had the time to read. I'm an expert in education and curriculum. I did it for the lulz as anonymous. Peace 50.35.197.167 (talk) 08:05, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Fixed the article for the lulz - Peace

Other people's posts

 * In K9, the curriculum's scope and sequence must be "mapped" against the scope and sequence of previous and subsequent years as well as against other subjects.

What on earth? I've worked in education fro a long time and this statement makes absolutely no sense to me? What is meant by K9 the rest of the statement is quite convoluted. --Brideshead 17:57, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm not taking a position on whether this "must" be done, but just to clarify what somebody wrote there: By "K9" I expect they meant "Kindergarten through 9th grade," which would typically be about ages 5-14 in the United States. In the US system, often all the students in a school at each of these grade levels will be studying the same subjects, so "mapping" could be possible; after that (in "senior high school") diverse course schedules could make it unrealistic or unfeasible. The person who wrote about "mapping" here might have something more specific in mind; but in general it would mean coordinating what is studied with a plan that makes curriculum coherent across years and across different subjects. jawhitzn 19:49, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the information James, That makes much more sense. I question wether this is useful information in the article, wether it adds anything. Thanks --Brideshead 20:31, 14 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Also note, it was originally K12, usually expressed as "K-12", but changed to K9 in an edit rife with vandalism. --John Owens | (talk) 05:00, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Bad intro
The start of this page should define curriculum or something. In normal English. Eg "A curriculum is...". Not some nonsensical thing that takes 10 minutes to decipher.

203.97.2.38 00:49, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

I can't find a dictionary anywhere that defines curriculum as the content of the courses offered by an educational institution. I propose we edit the opening paragraph to limit the definition to just, "the courses offered by a university," or, "the courses needed to earn a degree or diploma." I know it's small, but the accuracy of the article would be increased. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xflipx (talk • contribs) 22:59, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

I completely agree. I'm taking graduate courses in education and we define curriculum as: The Department of Education (US) goes even further to say that curriculum means “the planned interaction of pupils with instructional content, materials, resources, and processes for evaluating the attainment of educational objectives”.

Other definitions combine various elements to describe curriculum:

All the learning which is planned and guided by the school, whether it is carried on in groups or individually, inside or outside the school. (John Kerr) Outlines the skills, performances, attitudes, and values pupils are expected to learn from schooling. It includes statements of desired pupil outcomes, descriptions of materials, and the planned sequence that will be used to help pupils attain the outcomes. The total learning experience provided by a school. It includes the content of courses (the syllabus), the methods employed (strategies), and other aspects, like norms and values, which relate to the way the school is organized. The aggregate of courses of study given in a learning environment. The courses are arranged in a sequence to make learning a subject easier. In schools, a curriculum spans several grades. Curriculum can refer to the entire program provided by a classroom, school, district, state, or country. A classroom is assigned sections of the curriculum as defined by the school. For example, a fourth grade class teaches the part of the school curriculum that has been designed as developmentally appropriate for students who are approximately nine years of age.

One of the definitions ended with “processes for evaluating the attainment of educational objectives”. Assessment is the important process necessary for determining success. 50.35.197.167 (talk) 06:31, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

On the suggested merger of Core Curriculum into this article
This article is on curriculum in general, of which formal school curriculum is only part. It might be more appropriate if the section on formal school curriculum would be broken out into a separate article on its own, and then Core Curriculum could be merged into that one. jawhitzn 13:02, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

--I second that only because of both articles' short length. However, I also believe that they are distinct enough to require some degree of separation. Lirsveacba (talk) 21:22, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Merge and Fix
This definitely needs revising and putting it into a better flow. It also should come under the generic term Curriculum so a merge is a must in my view. there is much work to do on that article too so merge and let us fix them as one unit rather than two similar units going different ways.ArisB 13:35, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Article Rating
I'm justifying rating this article as "Start" as it is more than a mere stub (has sections, multiple references), but can obviously be expanded with more types of curriculum, issues in curriculum teaching and creation, etc.... Curriculum is everything that is taught in education, I think this merits a "Top" rating. 69.243.168.118 (talk) 01:44, 27 April 2008 (UTC) (User:Formerly_the_IP-Address_24.22.227.53, not currently logged in)

Merge of Curriculum and instruction here

 * Propose merge, on the basis that if that article has anything worth salvaging, here is the place for it. "Curriculum and instruction" is far too vague a basis for an encyclopedic article, and most of the text is clearly lifted from a textbook. Itsmejudith (talk) 19:37, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Curriculum types in the US
Hi all,

It was clear to me that this page needed a bit of reorganization, so I've made a very small start, moving some materials around and under new headings. I'm most concerned with the mess that was the discussion of curricula in the US, mostly under the header of 'core curriculum'. The question of curricular design is a very different question in the US than in most places, because higher education is very different in the US from most places, so it needs to be brought under it's own header to make sense. Also, there are three main types of curriculum (maybe more? please add!) in colleges in the US, but only one was mentioned here (probably because there was a well-developed page on core curricula that had been merged into here).

Ideally, eventually this section will include full descriptions of the curriculum types with detailed examples of the way they're implemented. It would also be nice to make a few categories corresponding to the different curriculum types, to put the article pages for the schools into.

I'll help develop things more as I have time, but in the meantime any help you can give would be much appreciated! -Mgcsinc (talk) 17:37, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Sample Curriculums are not at all
I'm not sure how this happened, but all the Sample Curricula are links to content-related wiki pages. Based on any description of curriculum, it is not merely a wikipedia entry. Jelkimantis (talk) 10:49, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

"Tycoil" curriculum
I am unable to find a single non-Wikipedia-related reference to "tycoil curriculum" in either Google Books or Google Scholar. I am inclined to believe we've been had by a hoax. Therefore, I've removed mention of it from the article. -- Simply cannot be stopped (talk) 19:40, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Restructuring
This article is a bit of a mess at the moment. I'm going to try to restructure it around general matters and then matters associated with primary/secondary vs. higher education. I don't know that much, especially about the curriculum theory stuff pertaining to non-higher ed, so please revert anything that I do that is inappropriate. I'm also removing the "sample curricula" section, which appears to be just a list of academic subjects. - Mgcsinc (talk) 01:19, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

Curriculum means
Curriculum is used in several meanings. Curriculum Studies is that it is true. برنامه درسی (talk) 12:59, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

this is my area of expertise
This is my area of expertise, but short of rewriting all of the sections on the history of college curricula and their connection to the development of secondary education and education generally, I see no way to improve these, and I have neither the time nor the inclination. However, there are good books on the history of higher ed which contain the relevant material, not cited nor apparently consulted here, which I suggest someone do. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.66.244.200 (talk) 00:17, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Looking afresh in 2020
There is a lot of good work here. We do however expect references. I have splattered a few maintenance tags around. However the definition of curriculum seems very narrow- in searching for recent research I came across these useful powerpoints written by ofsted for school governors.

As a rule of thumb they say: Curriculum is :
 * The frame work for setting out the aims of a programme
 * including the knowledge and understanding gained at each stage
 * then for translating that framework into a structure and narrative for the institution
 * then for evaluation of what knowlege and understanbing the students have gain against the expectations

I have not read these 52 sides but seems to be more comprehensive than we are.

Shall we open the discussion here about we want to convey? ClemRutter (talk) 20:59, 12 October 2020 (UTC)