Purpose, Scope, Elements
Purpose, Scope, and Elements of Curriculum
Once the meaning of curriculum is clear, four practical questions follow. What is the curriculum for? How much should it cover? In what order should it teach? And what parts make it up? This chapter answers each in turn: purpose, scope, sequence, and elements. Together they are the working vocabulary a developer uses to talk about any curriculum.
The four kinds of purpose a curriculum can hold, and the qualities it sets out to build in learners
How much of which knowledge to teach, and the five approaches for organizing that coverage
The order in which content is taught, why scope and sequence travel together, and five criteria for sequencing
The narrow and broad lists of what a curriculum is made of, and how the elements connect around staff and learners
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