Curriculum

The sequence and series of tasks and assignments posed to students. In the U.S., curricula often seen as too broad and superficial in coverage, giving little attention to building links across concepts and little depth in coverage (Taking Science to School, ch. 8, p. 217)

There is a difference between a learning curriculum and a teaching curriculum according to Lave and Wenger. “A learning curriculum consists of situated opportunities (thus including exemplars of various sorts often thought of as "goals") for the improvisational development of new practice (Lave, 1989). A learning curriculum is a field of learning resources in everyday practice viewed from the perspective of learners // .” // “[It] is essentially situated. It is not something that can be considered in isolation, manipulated in arbitrary didactic terms, or analyzed apart from the social relations that shape legitimate peripheral participation.” // “ //A teaching curriculum, by contrast, is [only] constructed for the instruction of newcomers.” (Lave & Wenger, 1991, p. 97)