Essays on School Curriculums

Creating sustainable improvements in the school curriculum has been a virtual challenge to the school system, particularly in Africa. Farrant (1980) defines curriculum as “all that is taught in a school including the time tabled subjects and all those aspects of its life”. In this...

In our ever-changing world, our curriculum and the way we teach our students must adapt to meet these changes. Our students are living in a world where they have access to an enormity of information at their fingertips and adults are no longer the primary...

Tyler’s curriculum model has been a strong inspiration for many educationists in the field of curriculum development since its publication in 1949. The influence of this model remains resilient regardless of its age, signifying the importance of the four simple questions based around Tyler model....

In our day the internet can provide an answer to any answer or any information that a person searches for, including children, and many children are curious about what life has to offer. That is why they search the internet and learn things that could...

A primary concern of every nation is the education of its future generations. This is why designing and reforming the national curriculum is of great importance to every country. Nevertheless, as careers move toward specialization and individualization, uniform national curriculums become less relevant. In this...

The introduction of a broad science programme for all classes was one of the key changes in the revised Primary and Elementary School Curriculum of 2000 (Department of Education and Science, 2000a). This report presents the findings of an evaluation carried out in forty Primary...