Curriculum
[kə'rɪkjʊləm] or [kə'rɪkjələm]
Definition
(n.) A race course; a place for running.
(n.) A course; particularly, a specified fixed course of study, as in a university.
Editor: Olaf
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Course of studies.
Typist: Susan
Examples
- This statement needs to be rendered more specific by connecting it with the materials of school instruction, the studies which make up the curriculum. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Moreover, the curriculum must be planned with reference to placing essentials first, and refinements second. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It would be hard to find a subject in the curriculum within which there are not found evil results of a compromise between the two opposed ideals. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- History is one such group of facts; algebra another; geography another, and so on till we have run through the entire curriculum. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- There exists an educational tradition which opposes science to literature and history in the curriculum. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Arts and occupations form the initial stage of the curriculum, corresponding as they do to knowing how to go about the accomplishment of ends. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- As matter of fact, such schemes of values of studies are largely but unconscious justifications of the curriculum with which one is familiar. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Obviously studies or the subject matter of the curriculum have intimately to do with this business of supplying an environment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Just because the studies of the curriculum represent standard factors in social life, they are organs of initiation into social values. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Everyone knows how child study is revolutionizing the school room and the curriculum. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Edited by Jonathan