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Curriculum is:
From Latin word currere, which means to run the course of the race.
The sum of the learning content, experiences and resource that are purposely
selected, organized and implemented by the school in pursuit of its peculiar as a
district of learning and human development.
- De La Cruz (1982), curriculum involves the general aim, which the schools are to
pursue and about which the specific objectives of instructions are attained
- Garcia (1993), curriculum is the collection of learning experiences proposed as a
result of deliberation for student attainment.
- Grayson (1977) the term curriculum is taken to mean the organized set of content
and activities that a school uses as basis for education of students.
- Other writers on the subject define curriculum as being all those learning
experiences of children that take place under the direction or control of the school,
or all the experiences which are utilized by the school to attain aims of education.
- Alice Miel (1965) the curriculum is the resultof interaction of a complex of factors,
including the physical environment and the desires, beliefs, knowledge, attitude and
skills of the persons served by the serving school.
- Palma (1982) further defines curriculum as the basic infrastructure of a schools
educational program.
PROLOGUE
THE PLAY
III. Who needs the most practice talking in school? Who gets the most? JHOLT
EPILOGUE
Here is what PHILIPS and GIBBONS (1985) have to say about LEARNING: