Broadly speaking, curriculum is an educational experience, which is the sum of various factors that have a positive impact on the subject; In a narrow sense, curriculum refers to the educational factors existing and generated in the school field, which are helpful for students' positive and healthy development, as well as the educational experience gained by students.

Connotation of the course: the course is the teaching material. Traditionally, the content of the course is regarded as the knowledge that students want to acquire, and the key point is to impart knowledge to students.

Historical evolution:

With the improvement of the imperial examination system in Tang and Song Dynasties, the word "class" appeared. Imperial examination is also called "scholar". The study of exams is called schoolwork. The arrangement of schoolwork is called "course", and the place where schoolwork is implemented is called "classroom".

Curriculum is a concept of development, which consists of certain educational goals, specific knowledge and experience and expected learning activities, and contains a set of rich, basic, creative and potential plans and settings.

From the perspective of educational objectives, curriculum is the blueprint for cultivating people; Judging from the content of the course, the course is a knowledge system and its path that is suitable for the law of students' physical and mental development, connects students' direct experience and indirect experience, and guides students' all-round development of personality. Because different educational concepts have different understandings of curriculum, the concept of curriculum has not been finalized so far.

There are two most popular sayings in academic circles: curriculum is the subject of teaching. This is the most common and common-sense curriculum definition. Courses in a broad sense refer to all subjects studied by students and various activities under the guidance of teachers. A course in a narrow sense refers to a subject or a class of courses.

Courses are learning experiences. Dewey, an American educator, believes that curriculum is an experience or experience that students gain spontaneously under the guidance of teachers. Its outstanding feature is to put students' direct experience at the center of the course, while ignoring the importance of systematic knowledge.

Definition:

Curriculum is a learning system or unit composed of three dimensions of learning content: attitude, knowledge and skills, which are interrelated through quantity, quality and order. The basic unit of the course is the lesson point. The smallest unit is "three elements". Class point is the basic unit of the course, which consists of three elements: attitude point, knowledge point and skill point. It can be a single point or a combination of multiple points.