Curriculum Development
Curriculum development is the domain that does the work of deciding what to teach. It feeds on what history has already taught and settles the issues every later domain picks up.
What curriculum development is
Curriculum development is the process of deciding what to teach and learn, along with all the considerations needed to make those decisions well. At its core are two decisions, what to teach and what learners should learn, but reaching them honestly means weighing a great deal more.
Development involves serious thinking across several areas at once: history, sociology, philosophy, culture, politics, and economics. A decision about what to teach is never only an educational decision; it touches what a society values, what it can afford, and what its politics will allow.
Out of that thinking, development settles a set of issues that recur throughout this guide: the purpose or aim, the content or subject matter, the organization, the teaching methods, the evaluation, and how change will be handled. These are the moving parts that later domains pick up one by one.
Deciding what to teach and learn, with all the considerations behind it
Its two core decisions are what to teach and what learners should learn. Reaching them draws on history, sociology, philosophy, culture, politics, and economics, and settles purpose, content, organization, methods, evaluation, and change.
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