Types Of Curriculum
Curriculum is not always the overt or written curriculum. So here you can find some of the different Specific Types of Curriculums, it's implications and even some extra information we want you to know!
1.Recommended curriculum (Idealogical Curriculum)
Definition: This curriculum is construed by the educational stakeholders at the national level. It is more general and usually consists of policy guidelines. It reflects the impact of "opinion shapers" such as policymakers, educationists, scholars, professional associations, International bodies (UNESCO)
Extra Information:
-DepEd
-CHED
2. Written Curriculum (Enacted curriculum)
Definition: According to Glatthorn (1987) written curriculum is also known as an overt curriculum. It is the curriculum that forms part of state and district curriculum guides. It is a curriculum intended to ensure that the educational goals of the system are fulfilled. It can also be defined as the curriculum of control.
Extra Information:
-The
syllabus
-The
modules
- Teachers’ lesson plans
3. Taught Curriculum (Operational Curriculum)
Definition: The taught curriculum is the one that teachers actually deliver. Researchers have pointed out that there is enormous variation in the nature of what is actually taught, despite the superficial appearance of uniformity (Gehrke, Knapp, & Sirotnik, 1992).
Extra Information:
-Teacher
activities
-Students’
activities
4. Supported Curriculum
Author's Definition
The Supported Curriculum not only plays a vital role in developing, implementing, and evaluating the curriculum, it also affects the quantity and nature of the learned content (Glatthron, Boschee, & Whitehead, 2006).
Extra information
- The elements of the supported curriculum
- The allocation of time for a particular topic.
- The quality of textbooks.
- Materials for the learning process.
- The guides and helps.
Author's
Definition
The
curriculum that is reflected by the assessment or evaluation of the learners is
called the Assessed Curriculum. It includes both formative and summative
evaluation of learners conducted by teachers, schools, or external
organizations. It involves all the tests (teacher-made, district or
standardized) in all formats (such as portfolio, performance, production,
demonstration, etc.) (e.g. Berliner, 1984; Turner, 2003)
Definition by
the group
This is based on the assessment and
evaluation of each student, either given by the teacher or by other
organizations in order to see the level of learning of each student.
Extra
information
- Evaluation formats of the Assessed curriculum.
- Tests
- Briefcase
- Performances
- Exhibitions
- Demonstrations
- Productions
6. Learned Curriculum
Author's
Definition
All the changes occurred in the learners
due to their school experience are called the Learned Curriculum. It is the
curriculum that a learner absorbs or makes sense of as a result of interaction
with the teacher, class-fellows or the institution.
Definition by
the group
Everything learned by the student
throughout his career, be it experiences, knowledge, developed skills and
attitudes, is called the Learned Curriculum.
Extra
information
Example
Luann cartoon on
canvas which depicts the failure of the learned curriculum, Luann recited the
topics she had learned that day in class leaving herself and her father from
her confused. What her mother said in response sums up the idea of the taught
versus learned curriculum perfect, “what she was taught and what she learned…
two different things”
7.
The hidden or covert curriculum
Extra Information: It should be noted that a hidden curriculum can reinforce the lessons of the formal curriculum, or it can contradict the formal curriculum, revealing hypocrisies or inconsistencies between a school’s stated mission, values, and convictions and what students actually experience and learn while they are in school.
8. Societal curriculum
Definition: Cortes defines this curriculum as:…[the] massive, ongoing, informal curriculum of family, peer groups, neighborhoods, churches, organizations, occupations, mass media, and other socializing forces that “educate” all of us throughout our lives.
Extra Information: Societal curriculum does not follow any particular programs, unlike the learner-centered curriculum. The parents, peers or other members of the society provide information to one another without developing programs or courses. It has played a critical role in providing knowledge to young people especially children in the pre-school stage of development.
Extra
Information: The null or nonexistent curriculum, in directing focus on
what is not present, brings to the field of curriculum studies an important
theoretical tool for considering that which is not offered to students, and the
potential educational significance and effect of such neglect.
10. The Phantom Curriculum
Definition: The messages prevalent in and through exposure to any type of media. These components and messages play a major part in the enculturation of students into the predominant meta-culture, or in acculturating students into narrower or generational subcultures.
Extra Infromation:
- Exposure to different types of media often provides illustrative contexts for class discussions, relevant examples, and common icons and metaphors that make learning and content more meaningful to the real lives and interests of today students.
- At church, in the context of religious expression, lessons on values, ethics or morals, moulded behaviours.
- Social experiences based on the family’s preferences.
13. Curriculum In Use
Definition: It comprises those things in textbooks, and content and concepts in the district curriculum guides. However, those “formal” elements are frequently not taught. The curriculum-in-use is the actual curriculum that is delivered and presented by each teacher.
Extra Information: Each teacher plans different lessons and deliver the intend curriculum in a unique way.
14. Recieved Curriculum
Definition: Those things that students actually take out of classrooms; those concepts and content that are truly learned and remembered.
Extra Information:
- It stands for what students actually learn by indulging the experiences provided by the teachers and going through the intended curriculum.
- It comprehends what was learned and experienced by students.
Definition: Processes, content, knowledge combined with the experiences and realities of the learner to create new knowledge.
Extra Information: It's called "schema" or the prior knowledge of students that combines with current lessons to create understanding.
Definition: According to (Wilson, 2004) These types of curriculum may be either formal or informal, and inherent lessons may be overt or covert, good or bad, correct or incorrect depending on ones’ views. Students who use the Internet and electronic media on a regular basis, both for recreational and informational purposes, are bombarded with all types of media and messages.
Extra Information:
- It's focused on critical thinking.
- Learning occurs while searching information on internet.
- Learners need critical-thinking skills.
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