Curriculum Development

A curriculum is more than a list of subjects. It is the full plan for what a school sets out to teach, why those choices are made, and how learning is organized and checked. This guide walks through the field from the ground up: what the word means, the foundations that shape any curriculum, the forms a curriculum can take, and the step-by-step model that turns purposes into real classroom experiences.

What This Guide Teaches

• Define curriculum and tell apart its narrow and broad meanings.
• Explain the philosophical, psychological, and social foundations that shape what schools teach.
• Compare the explicit, implicit, null, and co-curricular forms of curriculum.
• Work through Ralph Tyler’s four questions: purposes, learning experiences, organization, and evaluation.
• Study a community and its learners to decide what a curriculum should aim for.
• Select, organize, and evaluate learning experiences, then design and build a working curriculum.

The Learning Path

The guide is broken down into nine modules. New chapters land regularly; the list below grows as each one ships.