Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun All the courses of study offered by an educational institution.
- noun A group of related courses, often in a special field of study.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A course; specifically, a fixed course of study in a university, college, or school: as, the curriculum of arts; the medical curriculum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A race course; a place for running.
- noun A course; particularly, a specified fixed course of study, as in a university.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The set of
courses ,coursework , and their content, offered at aschool oruniversity . - noun obsolete A
racecourse ; a place forrunning .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an integrated course of academic studies
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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They stand for nothing and the curriculum is a man, head full of straw.
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David Nunan, for example, argues that the curriculum is the totality of what actually happens in an educational setting:
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So the curriculum is a mishmash of this and that -- discrete details of a main point that does not register.
Jacob Neusner: The Costs of Jewish Studies Endowments Jacob Neusner 2010
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"Calls for shared curriculum for the common standards have triggered renewed debates about who decides what students learn, and even about varied meanings of the word "curriculum," adding layers of complexity to the job of translating the broad learning goals into classroom teaching," writes Gewertz.
Peter Meyer: March Madness and a Common Curriculum Peter Meyer 2011
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Let others know who might be interested in teaching with the materials so that the curriculum is adopted in more and more classrooms.
Web Teacher › How Educators Can Get the Most from WaSP InterAct 2009
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So the curriculum is a mishmash of this and that -- discrete details of a main point that does not register.
Jacob Neusner: The Costs of Jewish Studies Endowments Jacob Neusner 2010
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David Nunan, for example, argues that the curriculum is the totality of what actually happens in an educational setting:
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"Calls for shared curriculum for the common standards have triggered renewed debates about who decides what students learn, and even about varied meanings of the word "curriculum," adding layers of complexity to the job of translating the broad learning goals into classroom teaching," writes Gewertz.
Peter Meyer: March Madness and a Common Curriculum Peter Meyer 2011
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Our schools need to teach that being skeptical of the curriculum is acceptable.
What Is the Sound of One Knee Jerking? Roger Sutton 2006
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Our schools need to teach that being skeptical of the curriculum is acceptable.
Archive 2006-04-01 Roger Sutton 2006
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