What is curriculum?
Curriculum is everywhere. Whether desired, or not, teaching and learning is in everything that people do—it is present in the websites we produce and consume, the streets we walk down, the people with whom we interact. Curriculum is part of ‘being’ in the world. While the construction of knowledge occurs through intentional teaching and learning contexts, it also occurs when one seeks escapism in activities like listening to music or hiking in the forest.
Public curricula aim to include numerous individuals and groups, topics of consequence for society, materials that span local and global contexts, in and out of schools, and that connect past, present, and future |