Curriculum Development: A Guide to Practice

by Jon W. Wiles

Curriculum development is a process whereby the choices of designing a learning experience for clients (students) are made and then activated through a series of coordinated activities

The field of curriculum, then, is a subset of professional education that asks questions, provides information, and steers the process of design and development. Curriculum is also the foundation for any subsequent evaluation.

The curriculum is all of the learning of students, which is planned by and directed by the school to attain its educational goals. ( Taba, 1962 , p. 11 )

Curriculum is concerned not with what students will do in the learning situation, but with what they will learn as a consequence of what they do. Curriculum is concerned with results. ( D. Tanner & L. Tanner, 1995 , p. 67 )