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.
The connotation of the course is that the course is the teaching material, and the content of the course is traditionally regarded as the knowledge that students want to acquire, emphasizing the basic points of transmitting knowledge to students.
The transfer of knowledge is based on teaching materials, so the course content is of course the teaching materials used in class. This is the embodiment of a discipline-centered view of educational purpose.
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:
1, the course is a teaching subject. 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.
2. 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.
Course classification:
An ideal course is one that scientists consider valuable and useful. Such scientists are at the forefront of their work and field, and they are rethinking how students receiving secondary education and higher education can acquire newly developed knowledge.
A written course is a document detailing the learning objectives, contents of related fields, test requirements and achievement standards that must be achieved. Written courses vary in detail, from general descriptions, such as official documents of the national government, to textbooks and workbooks.