Technological Perspective of Education and Curriculum Development

Description

Curriculum can be recognized as an authoritative prescription for the course of study of a system of schools. According to old concept, the curriculum was merely an outline of the course of study. The new concept of curriculum represents a very broad dimension in itself, which means that it is tailored very flexibly by the curriculum developers to meet the diverse needs of the students at various age levels in recent days. The different aspects of this very curriculum helps the learners to acquire various knowledge, whether it is taught directly by the school or indirectly inculcated among them through both teachers and peers . The general purpose of this book is to understand the concepts of core, hidden, latent and null curriculum as well as their identification. By reviewing some selected past and present significant books, this book “Technological Perspective of Education and Curriculum Development” is aimed to identify and bring forward the importance of the different aspects of the curriculum and recent trends in education. This is a sincere effort to present the various types of curriculum in current textbooks and it is also hoped that we can one-day meet the challenges to build up an ideal curriculum through optimal incorporation of core, hidden, latent and null aspects of the curriculum in textbooks which may lead to advancement in the curriculum development.