Planning and Design of Curriculum Construction and Organization

Education and training is a complex, fast changing and contested terrain which has been the focus of enormous controversy. In formal education, a curriculum is the planned interaction of pupils with instructional content, materials, resources, and processes for evaluating the attainment of educational objectives. A curriculum is prescriptive, and is based on a more general syllabus which merely specifies what topics must be understood and to what level to achieve a particular grade or standard. Curriculum has numerous definitions, which can be slightly confusing. In its broadest sense a curriculum may refer to all courses offered at a school. This is particularly true of.schools at the university level, where the diversity of a curriculum might be an attractive point to a potential student.