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What is curriculum?
You have decided to take a course on curriculum, and you probably assume we will begin the class with, if nothing else, a definition from which to work. Not quite. The fact of the matter is that there are many definitions of curriculum. In his book, //Curriculum: Perspective, Paradigm, and Possibility// (1997, Prentice Hall), Bill Schubert shares a number of definitions of curriculum. Below is a file that summarizes the definitions in Bill's book. Also, review the Curriculum Introduction PowerPoint.

[|Curriculum Defined.doc]

[|Curriculum Introduction.ppt]

Curriculum Overview []

Did you see a definition that fits your current images of curriculum? You will be able to navigate through a number of the definitions as you think about curriculum work - we will think about it in terms of a model or a package to some degree as we talk about principles of design and evaluation. However, for the most part when I talk about curriculum I am referring to the shared lived experience among those involved. For the most part, I believe this focuses on what happens in the classroom, but I also believe we cannot see the classroom in isolation of the social and historical context. That said, often we will use "curriculum as experience" as the frame of reference when we talk about curriculum.

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