Defi nitions of curriculum are as numerous
as there are philosophers of education.
Ralph Tyler’s curriculum model
brings the needs of the child, the society,
and the academic disciplines together in
an attempt to formulate the general objectives
teachers are to teach and students
are to learn. J. Allen Queen, a futurist,
views curriculum as society’s requirement
of the formal educational process to prepare
the next generations for adaptability,
acceptance, diversity, and survival in
an unknown world. Curriculum may also
be viewed as a collection of ongoing formal
and informal processes and experiences
that prepare students to achieve and
adapt to personal and societal needs. The
courses of study offered at an educational
institution represent the overt, intentional
curriculum, what we make public
and announce we are teaching in school.
The overt or explicit curriculum is what