What Curriculum Is
What Curriculum Is
The word curriculum carries more weight than most people give it. To some it means a textbook, to others a timetable, to others the whole life of a school. This chapter settles the meaning: where the word comes from, the three questions any curriculum has to answer, and how the people who study the field have defined it across the last hundred years.
The Latin root, the narrow and broad meanings, and the shift from seeing curriculum as a product to seeing it as a process
What knowledge is worthwhile, why it is worthwhile, and how it is acquired, plus the practices these questions shape
From Bobbitt in 1924 to Ellis in 2004, and the split between prescriptive and descriptive definitions
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