Question

Research the constructs and components of curriculum and develop a 12-15 slide multimedia presentation including title, reference slide, and presentation notes. Address the following: Describe what curriculum is and why it is important. Describe what hidden curriculum is and why is it important, and describe one curriculum policy change that has been implemented local, state , or federal level in the past 10 years. Explain what the policy attempt to correct or overcome. Use examples to demonstrate and support your claims in terms of the policy having an effect on the desired outcome.

Answer 1

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(Answer) A curriculum is basically the modes, tools, plans and processes that are comprised in a plan that is designed to achieve a particular goal.

In politics, a campaign, the investment, the government facilities, the benefits, the implementation of policy etc would be a part of a curriculum.

The purpose of a curriculum is to achieve a certain goal. For instance, a scholarly curriculum in a course would involve a textbook, projects, group discussions, papers and tests that would help achieve the goal of educating the child in that particular field.

A curriculum is important because it helps the planer or leader to tighten their focus on implementing only the essential activities for the goal. This means that a curriculum helps retain important activities and edit the frivolous tools that would help to get to the goal optimally and efficiently.

A hidden curriculum is nothing but the purpose of the goal. For instance, there is a political curriculum that is made to give free vaccinations to children. Here, the goal is for a child to have access to vaccinations that are free of charge. However, the hidden curriculum is to eradicate diseases like measles, polio, smallpox etc.

A hidden curriculum is essential because it determines the operational value of the goal of a curriculum. In other words, it determined how useful the tools in a curriculum are based on how useful the application is in everyday life.

An essential policy change in the last 10 years has been in the Obama administration. The curriculum was that “sex education” in schools would be made more comprehensive. This means that the sex education class in public schools would have a nurse, doctor or specialist explain the biological implications and precautions that such intimacy would entail. After this curriculum, it was noticed that teen-pregnancy rates and abortion rates automatically went lower than before. Here, the hidden curriculum was that infanticide and unwanted pregnancies were reduced simply because the younger generations were able to understand the process on a biological level. Here, the policy attempt was to correct the level of ignorance about the human anatomy and educate individuals in a way that would enable them to control the dynamics of future generations.