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Curriculum VS Syllabus
PROF DR SHAHMURAD
shahmurad65@gmail.com
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The curriculum is the
superset and syllabusis the subset of
curriculum
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Curriculum is the complete
set of taught material in a
school system.
It is prescriptive (asopposed to the
descriptive syllabus,
which is the outline of
topics covered.
If the curriculumprescribes the
objectives of thesystem, the syllabusdescribes the means toachieve them
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Curriculum comes from
a Latin word which
means the course of a
chariot race.
However, curriculum has
come to mean much
more than a prescribedone track race and calls
for a search for an
understanding thatgives meaning to
education that is both
functional and ethical4
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Curriculum as a guiding
document helps
teachers in
understanding
standards that students
need to achieve at theend of a developmental
stage/course
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The curriculum
document will indicate
what to teach, how
the curriculum is to be
taught and help in
checking whether thecurriculum is taught as
per the document.
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Discussions at HEC
The present
curricula inbiology forstudents at all
levels ofeducation aredeficient and
substandard. 7
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The curricula neithercommensurate with the
present and futureneeds of the countrynor do these take in toaccount >>>>>>> thecontemporarydevelopments in thesubject in the rest of
the world. 8
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Discussions at HEC
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It is proposed by HECthat national
committees of expertswill be appointed for acomplete revision ofthe curricula andcourses of study atprimary, secondaryand tertiary levels in
biology respectively.10
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Consequently,
groups of learnedand experiences
biological
scientists will beasked to write
textbooks, based
on revised syllabi. 11
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Over the years, curriculum has
meant different things to
different educationists.
Some simply equate curriculum
to the syllabus that is to betransmitted in the class.
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A syllabus gives a more
focused outline for particular
subjects.
It cant be equated, because a
curriculum is for a course but asyllabus is for a subject.
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The curriculum is the
superset and syllabusis the subset of
curriculum
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The syllabus is the content,
the list of topics/concepts
to be taught, whereas thecurriculum is a
consideration of the
objectives, the content,
methods chosen to achieve
those objectives.
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It could/should
contain aconsideration of
the kind of
assessment onewill use to check
progress.16
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Curriculum is
developed keeping in
mind the standards
students should
achieve from well-
researched bestpractices.
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Curriculum is
designed so that theteaching and testing
are aligned with the
standards set foreach developmental
stage,
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Some see it as an end-product, which is to beachieved through a prescribed plan withpre-set objectives.
For others, it is the interaction betweenknowledge, students and teachers.
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A curriculum can
be a teachers
friend or an
enemy depending
on how the
teacher plans to
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The curriculum can
be a straight-jacketor a crutch or a
spring-board.
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For a teacher the
curriculum stopsbeing stifling if
he/she understands
what it is meant toachieve.
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But most use it, often
badly, as a crutch
because they make no
effort to engage with it
or understand what it
hopes to achieve.
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Once a teacher
understands that,he/she can use it
or work around it
to achieve thesame
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Thank You
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