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Course 4:
Week 1 : Getting to know curriculum
Lecture 1: The concept of curriculum
Curriculum – What is it?
A lot of confusion, many definitions
(Cornbleth, 1992)
A Source of Confusion?
Curriculum and Syllabus
Curriculum
A comprehensive educational package involving the conceptualization,
planning, designing, and detailing of a comprehensive learning program
for the benefit of deploying it in the schools.
Syllabus
A concise statement of the contents or topics of a curse/subject. A layout
out of key topics and related learning in an individual course/subject in a
learning program. It is a sub-set of the curriculum.
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