What Is The Curriculum Experience

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Understanding curriculum experiences The curriculum as experience What is curriculum? The term curriculum if often misunderstood for “the curriculum”. A formal document stipulating what learning outcomes students ought to achieve. In hindsight, the term curriculum is considerably broad and complex. Blaise and Nuttall (2011) highlight five key concepts in relation to curriculum theory and practise. Firstly, the intended curriculum, what teachers want students to experience (Blaise and Nuttall, 2011, P. 82). The enacted curriculum, what the educators teach. The hidden curriculum, what students learn without teachers realising. The null curriculum, what teachers do not want students to learn (Blaise and Nuttall, 2011, P. 82). Lastly, the lived curriculum, which is what the students actually experience. These five concepts sum up the term curriculum as more than just a document or what ought to be taught. Essentially curriculum is the experience. The stakeholders The curriculum, who creates the curriculum? Who other than the students benefit or handicap because of the curriculum? The stakeholders, stakeholders are various members or organizations within …show more content…

The interviewee believes students who have positive relationships with their educators will benefit personally and academically. He further assumes negative relationships will only achieve negative outcomes for a student’s educational learning and development. Pierson (2013) supports the interviewee’s statements by declaring upon the importance and value of human connection. Pierson (2013) also claims kids don’t learn from people they don’t like, which further supports the interviewees opinion’s on disconnection from learning in the relation to consequences from negative relationships. Pierson’s (2013) notion of the importance of positive teacher-student relationship reflects and highlights the interviewee’s beliefs and

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