This document defines curriculum and discusses its various types, including overt, societal, hidden, and null curriculums. It outlines the steps in curriculum development as identifying needs, setting goals and objectives, organizing committees, implementation, and evaluation. The impacts of curriculum on students and advantages like achieving goals and disadvantages like resistance to change are noted. Curriculum development in nursing aims to shape practice and includes all planned learning experiences.

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2. Curriculum and its types

3. Objectives
 Define curriculum.
 Explain types of curriculum.
 Describe Steps of curriculum.
 Explain Process of curriculum development.
 Impacts of curriculum on students
 Advantages and disadvantages of curriculum.
 Curriculum development in nursing.

4. Definitions of curriculum
 Definition 1: Curriculum is all the experiences
learners have under the guidance of the school.
 Definition 2: Curriculum is all
planned learnings for which the school is
responsible.
(From Marsh, C. J. & Willis, G. (2003).

5. Definitions of curriculum
 Curriculum is:
 That which is taught in schools
 A set of subjects.
 Content
 A program of studies.
 A set of materials
 A sequence of courses.
 A set of performance objectives
 A course of study

6. Types of curriculum
 1. Overt, explicit, or written curriculum
 Is simply that which is written as part of formal
instruction of schooling experiences. It may refer
to a curriculum document, texts, films, and
supportive teaching materials that are overtly
chosen to support the intentional instructional
agenda of a school.

7. Sub types of overt curriculum
 The formal curriculum (written or overt)
comprises those things in textbooks, and content
and concepts in the 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.

8. Cont…
 The received or the learned curriculum:
"The gap between what is taught and what is
learned—both intended and unintended." Cuban,
p. 223, 1992)

9. Cont…
Rhetorical curriculum
Elements from the rhetorical curriculum are
comprised from ideas offered by policymakers,
school officials, administrators, or politicians.
 The rhetorical curriculum may also come from the
publicized works offering updates in pedagogical
knowledge.

10. Cont…
 2. Societal curriculum
 As defined by Cortes (1981). 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.

11. Sub types of societal curriculum
 Concomitant curriculum - What is taught, or
emphasized at home.
 Phantom curriculum -The messages prevalent in
and through exposure to media.

12. Cont…
3. The hidden or covert curriculum
 Longstreet and Shane (1993) offer a commonly
accepted definition for this term.
 . . . the "hidden curriculum," which refers to the
kinds of learnings. children derive from the very
nature and organizational design of the public
school, as well as from the behaviors and
attitudes of teachers and administrators.... "

13. Cont…
 4. The null curriculum
 That which we do not teach, thus giving students
the message that these elements are not
important in their educational experiences or in
our society.

14. The process of curriculum
development
 It is process of deciding what to teach and learn, along
with the considerations needed to make such decisions.
 It includes aspects such as tasks, roles, expectations,
resources, time and space, and the ordering of all these
elements to create a curriculum plan or document
(Behar, 1994).

15. Identify Curricular
Need
Develop Goals and
Objectives
Identify Resources and
Restraints
Organize Curriculum
Committees
Establish Roles of
Personnel
Identify New
Curriculum
Select New
Curriculum
Design New
Curriculum
Implement New
Curriculum
Evaluate Curriculum
Ten-Step
Curriculum
Planning
Process
Model

16. STEPS OF
CURRICULUM
DEVELOPMENT
T
Formulation of
educational
objectives
Selection of teaching
learning
experiences
Organization of
teaching –
learning
experiences
Evaluation of
learning
objectives/
outcomes

17. Impacts of curriculum
 Traditionally, curriculum is considered as content and
examination. However, curriculum is beyond the
written document. It is about the experiences of the
learners, the teachers, and even the learning
environment and the the community. In post-modern
society, the access of information is not an constraint
at all. The learners can gain the information through
different channels. But, how to make the learners to
internalize the information / knowledge to make
learning happens is stilling challenging all the
educators. The design in teaching and learning
comes in at this juncture. A well designed curriculum
will definitely attract attention and engage learners.
The first step towards a well designed curriculum
should be mindset change of the educators from
teacher- centric to learner-centric model. When
design the curriculum, we should always bear in mind
the " 4 curriculum commonplaces".

18. Advantages of curriculum
 As the curriculum is designed by the teacher, it become
easy to achieve the desired goals.
 Subject matter become psychologically sound due to its
relevance with the interests, needs and level of the
children.
 Content/Subject matter is logically arranged. - Irrelevant
material/ Subject matter is avoided.
 Teachers feel comfortable and confident in the classroom
activities.
 Democracy is encouraged.
 Co-operation is developed.
 Society/Community is also involved (directly or
indirectly) in the development of curriculum.
 No objection is raised by the teacher in connection with the
availability of sources and resources.

19. Disadvantages of Teacher
Centered Approach
 Following limitations may hinder the process.
 A change in the attitude on the part of learners,
teachers and community is difficult to develop.
 Lack of sources and resources.
 Hinderance due to rigid administration, planning and
management.
 It will become difficult to maintain a common
standared in various institutions.
 The existing curriculum for the teaching training
institutions is not suitable for the teacher centered
approach.
 A drastic change in the examination
system/evaluation will be required.

20. Curriculum development in
nursing
 Heidgerkin, a respected nurse educator in the
1940s and1950s, believed that curriculum
entailed all planned day to day learning
experiences of the students and faculty, including
both organized instructions and clinical
experiences
(Diekelmann, 1993)

21. Cont…
 “ it is the responsibility of nursing education in
collaboration with practice setting to shape
practice, not merely respond to changes in
practice environment.”
 (American Association of colleges of Nursing, 1999,p.60)

22. References
 Slattery, P. (1995) Curriculum Development in the
Postmodern Era. New York: Garland Publishing Inc.
 Wiles, J. and Bondi, J. (1998) Curriculum Development: A
Guide to Practice. Columbus, Ohio: Merrill.
 Slattery, P. (1995) Curriculum Development in the
Postmodern Era. New York: Garland Publishing Inc.
 Wiles, J. and Bondi, J. (1998) Curriculum Development: A
Guide to Practice. Columbus, Ohio: Merri
 Copyright© Leslie Owen Wilson,
1997 University of Wisconsin at Steven’s Point. Web
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http://www.uwsp.edu/acad/educ/lwilson/CURRIC/curtyp.htm

23. Cont…

Cortes, C.E. (1981) The societal curriculum:
Implications for multiethnic educations. In Banks, J.A
(ed.) Education in the 80's: Multiethnic
education. National Education Association.
 *Cuban, Larry (1992) Curriculum stability and
change. In Jackson, Philip (ed.) Handbook of Research
on Curriculum. American Educational Research
Association (added by MBeech)
 Eisner, E.W. (1994) The educational imagination: On
design and evaluation of school programs.
(3rd. ed) New York: Macmillan.
 Longstreet, W.S. and Shane, H.G. (1993) Curriculum
for a new millennium. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
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