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In K9, the curriculum's scope and sequence must be "mapped" against the scope and sequence of previous and subsequent years as well as against other subjects.

What on earth? I've worked in education fro a long time and this statement makes absolutely no sense to me? What is meant by K9 the rest of the statement is quite convoluted. --Brideshead 17:57, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not taking a position on whether this "must" be done, but just to clarify what somebody wrote there: By "K9" I expect they meant "Kindergarten through 9th grade," which would typically be about ages 5-14 in the United States. In the US system, often all the students in a school at each of these grade levels will be studying the same subjects, so "mapping" could be possible; after that (in "senior high school") diverse course schedules could make it unrealistic or unfeasible. The person who wrote about "mapping" here might have something more specific in mind; but in general it would mean coordinating what is studied with a plan that makes curriculum coherent across years and across different subjects. jawhitzn 19:49, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the information James, That makes much more sense. I question wether this is useful information in the article, wether it adds anything. Thanks --Brideshead 20:31, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Also note, it was originally K12, usually expressed as "K-12", but changed to K9 in an edit rife with vandalism. --John Owens | (talk) 05:00, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bad intro

The start of this page should define curriculum or something. In normal English. Eg "A curriculum is...". Not some nonsensical thing that takes 10 minutes to decipher.

203.97.2.38 00:49, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I can't find a dictionary anywhere that defines curriculum as the content of the courses offered by an educational institution. I propose we edit the opening paragraph to limit the definition to just, "the courses offered by a university," or, "the courses needed to earn a degree or diploma." I know it's small, but the accuracy of the article would be increased. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xflipx (talk • contribs) 22:59, 10 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

On the suggested merger of Core Curriculum into this article

This article is on curriculum in general, of which formal school curriculum is only part. It might be more appropriate if the section on formal school curriculum would be broken out into a separate article on its own, and then Core Curriculum could be merged into that one. jawhitzn 13:02, 17 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

--I second that only because of both articles' short length. However, I also believe that they are distinct enough to require some degree of separation. Lirsveacba (talk) 21:22, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Merge and Fix

This definitely needs revising and putting it into a better flow. It also should come under the generic term Curriculum so a merge is a must in my view. there is much work to do on that article too so merge and let us fix them as one unit rather than two similar units going different ways.ArisB 13:35, 15 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Article Rating

I'm justifying rating this article as "Start" as it is more than a mere stub (has sections, multiple references), but can obviously be expanded with more types of curriculum, issues in curriculum teaching and creation, etc.... Curriculum is everything that is taught in education, I think this merits a "Top" rating. 69.243.168.118 (talk) 01:44, 27 April 2008 (UTC) (User:Formerly_the_IP-Address_24.22.227.53, not currently logged in)[reply]

Notes

At the very bottom of the Choice Versus Curriculum topic, the following was listed:

Curriculum Model

Tyler's linear approach

Taba' s approach

Walker's deliberation approach

Eisner's artistic approach

As this seems to me as simply someone's unsourced notes on subjects to discuss, I have removed them, and am placing them here for reference should anyone desire. ~ Amory (talk) 00:57, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Merge of Curriculum and instruction here

Propose merge, on the basis that if that article has anything worth salvaging, here is the place for it. "Curriculum and instruction" is far too vague a basis for an encyclopedic article, and most of the text is clearly lifted from a textbook. Itsmejudith (talk) 19:37, 23 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Curriculum types in the US

Hi all,

It was clear to me that this page needed a bit of reorganization, so I've made a very small start, moving some materials around and under new headings. I'm most concerned with the mess that was the discussion of curricula in the US, mostly under the header of 'core curriculum'. The question of curricular design is a very different question in the US than in most places, because higher education is very different in the US from most places, so it needs to be brought under it's own header to make sense. Also, there are three main types of curriculum (maybe more? please add!) in colleges in the US, but only one was mentioned here (probably because there was a well-developed page on core curricula that had been merged into here).

Ideally, eventually this section will include full descriptions of the curriculum types with detailed examples of the way they're implemented. It would also be nice to make a few categories corresponding to the different curriculum types, to put the article pages for the schools into.

I'll help develop things more as I have time, but in the meantime any help you can give would be much appreciated! -Mgcsinc (talk) 17:37, 25 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sample Curriculums are not at all

I'm not sure how this happened, but all the Sample Curricula are links to content-related wiki pages. Based on any description of curriculum, it is not merely a wikipedia entry. Jelkimantis (talk) 10:49, 23 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"Tycoil" curriculum

I am unable to find a single non-Wikipedia-related reference to "tycoil curriculum" in either Google Books or Google Scholar. I am inclined to believe we've been had by a hoax. Therefore, I've removed mention of it from the article. -- Simply cannot be stopped (talk) 19:40, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Restructuring

This article is a bit of a mess at the moment. I'm going to try to restructure it around general matters and then matters associated with primary/secondary vs. higher education. I don't know that much, especially about the curriculum theory stuff pertaining to non-higher ed, so please revert anything that I do that is inappropriate. I'm also removing the "sample curricula" section, which appears to be just a list of academic subjects. - Mgcsinc (talk) 01:19, 23 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]