Kalpana

  Conceptions of Curriculum Main take away from unit one The Conceptions and Aspects of Curriculum are covered in unit one of the module. Conceptions of curriculum can be used to look at a curriculum through various viewpoints. Curriculum mainly focuses on social and culture needs, the individuals needs or subject matter. According to curriculum developers and teachers who have varying perspectives on what curriculum is concerned with and what it should be attempting to accomplish, there are basically seven conceptions of curriculum: cognitive processes conception, humanistic conception, social reconstructionist conception, technological conception, academic subject conception, eclectic concepts, and curriculum as a manipulative strategy. The term "curriculum" refers to both the plans created for directing learning in schools, which are typically represented in documents that can be retrieved and range in generality, and the implementation of those plans in the classroo...