The document presents various definitions of curriculum from multiple authors, categorizing it into concepts such as a list of subjects, learning experiences, intended outcomes, planned learning experiences, a discipline, and content or subject matter. It emphasizes the importance of personal definitions in curriculum development, suggesting that unclear understandings can lead to failures in projects and research. Additionally, it prompts readers to create their own definition of curriculum in a concise manner.

1. Definitions of Curriculum

2. The following are few definitions
provided by Beauachamp (1982), Eisner
(1985), Glatthorn (2006), Marsh (2004),
Oliva (2005), Pinar (1995), Reid (2006),
Saylor (1981), and Schubert (1986)

3.  Curriculum as a list of subjects
- curriculum includes the “permanent” or
the traditional subjects offered in school
curriculum such as Mathematics,
Language, Science, Music, Arts, and others

4.  Curriculum as learning experiences
- includes students’ curricular and co-curricular
activities
- learning experiences encountered in and
outside the school
- school culture – hidden curriculum or those
learned as a result of their experiences in school with
peers, schoolmates, teachers, school staff, or values
learned from a school program.

5.  Curriculum as intended learning outcomes
- list of learning competencies or standards
that students should learn in school

6.  Curriculum as planned learning experience
- documents, specifying contents,
objectives, or general ideas of what
students should know in school or in a
specific discipline.

7.  Curriculum as a discipline
- this definition has its own principles,
theories, and practices.

8.  Curriculum as content or subject matter
- views curriculum as a series of topics
under each subject area.

9. The “WHY” of Curriculum

10.  curriculum worker’s personal definition of
curriculum defines the curriculum product that they
will produce.

11.  Many curriculum projects fail, and many
curriculum researches appear vague because of
unclear understanding of the field of curriculum.

12. DR. CECILIA N. OBON
Class Facilitator
Curriculum Development

13. Activity
Write your own definition of a
curriculum. Explain your definition in not
more than 100 words.