What is curriculum? What is its purpose? How does it affect students, teachers, and administrators? The way ricul we define curriculum in part reflects our approach to it. as hi A curriculum can be defined as a plan for action, or a whic written document, which includes strategies for achieving such desired goals or ends. Most educators agree with this definition, as do most administrators who approach curriculum this in terms of a behavioral or managerial outlook. Curriculum can also be defined broadly, a dealing with the experiences of the learner, This view consid ers almost anything in school, even outside of school B(as long as it is planned) as part of the curriculum. It Roote is rooted in John Dewey's definition of experience and havior education, as well as Hollis Caswell and Doak Camp- bell's view, from the 1930s, that curriculum was-all the experiences children have under the guidance of the teacher. Humanistic curricularists and elementar