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Curriculum, Meaning and characteristics

In this article Curriculum, Its Importance, Meaning and its Characteristics has been discussed in precise.


Curriculum, Meaning and characteristics
Curriculum


Curriculum, Definition And Meaning

The term curriculum is derived from the Latin Word ‘Currer’ which means run, and it signifies a runway or a course which one runs to reach a goal”.In education, it is generally identified with a course of study, or subjects prescribed for a course. In fact, subjects form only a part of the curriculum means the total situation selected and organised by the institution and made available to the teacher to operate and translate the aim of education into reality. Informal education, the curriculum includes education for life and education for earning for living and it also includes a vast amount of different activities and vivid experiences. These activities and experiences are not confined in a particular place but extended to schools. Thus a curriculum may be defined as all learning activities and experiences that a student gets in schools under the guidance of the teacher. Thus the curriculum includes all courses and experiences that can prepare a man for life. So the curriculum should focus on the whole man. The curriculum should prepare persons both for life and earning.


Curriculum And Its Characteristics

Educationists have identified a number of characteristics of curriculum, some of these are discussed below-

1. The curriculum includes all activities that help in the development of the whole man.

2. The curriculum includes the whole school environment which helps in the total development of pupils.

3. The curriculum is only a means to achieve an end.

4. It includes total experience.

5. The curriculum includes both curricular and co-curricular activities and the end of education.

6. The curriculum is not static it is always dynamic.

7. It helps at the development of total personality.

8. It is a living process.

9.Curriculum always aims in the achievement of goals and It also reflects the philosophy of life.
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