'CURRICULUM' AND 'SYLLABUS'

Curriculum' and 'Syllabuses

Curriculum' and 'Syllabuses

Introduction

In formal education, a curriculum is the set of courses and their content, offered at a college or university. As an idea, curriculum derives from the Latin word for race course, referring to the course of events and experiences through which children grow into mature adults. A curriculum is mandatory, and is based on a broader agenda that merely states what issues must be understood and at what level to achieve a particular grade level.

The curriculum covers the entire scope of training and experience that happens inside and outside of school, not just the experiences that occur at school, experiences that are unplanned and undirected, and experiences intentionally directed the deliberate formation of adult members of society. Education in Iran is highly centralized and divided to K-12 education and higher education. Education K-12 is supervised by the Ministry of Education and higher education is under the supervision of the Ministry of Science and Technology.

The Fourth Five-Year Development Plan (2005-2010) provides for the improvement of the quality of the education system at all levels, and the reform of education and the development of appropriate training, continuing the trend towards market-oriented education and training work .

Primary school (DaBest) begins at age 6 for a period of 5 years. High school, also known as orientation cycle (Rahnamayi), ranging from the sixth through eighth grade. High school (Dabirestan), for which the last three years is not compulsory, is divided between theoretical manual, professional and technical, each program with their own specialties.

Universities, institutes of technology, schools and medical schools in the community, providing higher education. The requirement for admission to higher education is to have a high school diploma and, finally, pass the national examination for university entrance (Konkoor). Higher education is sanctioned by the different levels of diplomas: Fogh-e-Diplom or Kardani after 2 years of higher education, Karshenasi (also known as the "license") is awarded after 4 years of higher education ( degree). Arshad Karshenasi-e comes after two years of studies (Master). After which, another exam permits the nominee to chase a doctoral program (PhD)

For Bobbitt, the curriculum is a field of social engineering. For his cultural presumptions and social definitions, his curricular formulation has two notable features: (I) that scientific experts would be qualified and justified in the design of curricula based on their expert knowledge of what qualities are desirable in the adult members of society, and create experiences qualities, he said, and (ii) the curriculum is defined as actions, the experiences the student should have to become the adult that he or she should be.

Therefore, defined the curriculum as an ideal, and not the concrete reality of the facts and experiences that shape people who and what they are.

Contemporary views of curriculum reject these features of Bobbitt's postulates, but retain the basis of the curriculum as the course of the experiment (s) that forms human beings in people. through staff training curriculum is studied on a personal level and at ...