CURRICCULUM DEVELOPMENT (EDU402) VU

Lesson No.1
INTRODUCTION TO CURRICULUM
Topic 4: Views about Curriculum-2

Reinhartz and Beach (1997), “a flexible plan for teaching to meet needs of students
and also provides opportunities for teachable moments.”

Schubert (1993), “the term curriculum is shrouded in definitional controversy;

definitions continue to evolve, based upon educational conditions at a given
time in history and our understanding of teaching learning.”

Ellis (2004), “Prescriptive curriculum is about what “ought” to happen, it can take
the form of a plan, an intended program, or some kind of expert opinion about
what needs to take place in the course of study”.
The descriptive definition goes beyond the prescriptive one, i.e., “not merely in
terms of how things ought to be, but how things are in real classrooms, in other
words, the curriculum is ‘actual experience’

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