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Activity 1 - Bon Jaime C. Tangco - BSE Math II-2

The document discusses definitions of the curriculum. It presents definitions from Dewey, Bobbitt, Tyler, and others. The curriculum can be defined prescriptively as a plan or intended program of study, or descriptively based on actual student experiences. Descriptive definitions view the curriculum as the experiences and perceptions learners have of their education program. The curriculum involves helping students develop skills like critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration, and research.

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Activity 1 - Bon Jaime C. Tangco - BSE Math II-2

The document discusses definitions of the curriculum. It presents definitions from Dewey, Bobbitt, Tyler, and others. The curriculum can be defined prescriptively as a plan or intended program of study, or descriptively based on actual student experiences. Descriptive definitions view the curriculum as the experiences and perceptions learners have of their education program. The curriculum involves helping students develop skills like critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration, and research.

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STIMULATE: Plant Your Wisdom Tree

TOPIC: MEANING AND DEFINITION OF THE CURRICULUM

This will measure students' understanding and awareness in nature of the


curriculum by using a decision tree diagram to differentiate between Prescriptive and
Descriptive Definitions of Curriculum.

DEFINITION CURRICULUM

PRESCRIPTIVE DEFINITION DESCRIPTIVE DEFINITION

The prescriptive definition of


curriculum are those that give a Descriptive definitions go
provision of what “ought” to happen, beyond “how things ought to be” to
and they take a form of a plan, an how things really are in the real
intended program or some kind of classroom. (Ellis, 2004:5). One can
expect opinion about what needs to also use “experience” as another term
take place in the course of study. for descriptive curriculum.
(Ellis, 2004:4).

John Dewey (1902) defines


curriculum as a continuous Glen Hass (1987) defines
reconstruction, moving from the curriculum as the set of actual
child’s present experience out into experiences and perceptions of the
that represented by the organised experiences that each individual
bodies of truth that we call studies— learner has of his/her program of
the various studies are themselves education.
experience—they are that of the race.

D.F. Brown (2006) defines


Frankin Bobbit (1918) defines curriculum as all students school
curriculum as the entire range of experiences relating to the
experiences, both directed and improvement of skills and strategies
undirected, concerned in unfolding in thinking critically and creatively,
the abilities of the individual. solving problems, working
Ralph Tyler (1957) defines curriculum collaboratively with others,
as all the learning experiences communicating wall, writing more
planned and directed by the school affectively, reading more analytically
attain its educational goals. and conducting research to solve
problems.

Reference: https://www.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-
binaries/44334_1.pdf

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