Development Education
in the Curriculum
In this document the definition of the term ‘curriculum’ accords with that given in the White
Paper on Education which states that curriculum is:
…the content, structure and processes of teaching and learning, which the
school provides in accordance with its educational objectives and values.
It includes specific and implicit elements. The specific elements are those
concepts, skills, areas of knowledge and attitudes which children learn
at school as part of their personal and social development. The implicit
elements are those factors that make up the ethos and general environment
of the school. The curriculum in schools is concerned, not only with the
subjects taught, but also with how and why they are taught and with the
outcomes of this activity for the learner (DES, 1995, p. 18).