CURRICULUM THEORY AND PRACTICE

=> the subjects comprising a course of study in a school or college

=> a supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something, especially one based on general principles independent of the thing to be explained

=> the actual application or use of an idea, belief, or method as opposed to theories about such application or use.

Approaching Curriculum Theory and Practice:

Historically- based Idea	Current Example
Curriculum as a body of knowledge to be transmitted	Course syllabus, School/district guidelines
Curriculum as an attempt to achieve the product of certain ends of students	Lesson Plan, Instructional units
Curriculum as ongoing real-time process	Interaction of teachers and students. In other words “what actually happens in the classroom and what people do to prepare and evaluate”
Curriculum as praxis with emphasis on social justice	Extension of process in which learning is student-lead, incorporates critical analysis, ethno-curriculum, action research and/or self-study reflection research

Curriculum Framework:

1. Curriculum as a syllabus to be transmitted

# it means short and clear statement or list of topic for discourse, the contents of a treatise, the subjects of a series of teaching

2. Curriculum as product 

# the real purposes of education is to bring about significant changes in the students' pattern of behaviour

 

3. Curriculum as process

# interaction of teachers, students and environment

 

4. Curriculum as praxis

# the pedagogy goes beyond the learning experience of the learner