In education, a curriculum (or curricula) is broadly defined as the totality of student experiences that occur in the educational processA series of actions, changes or operations performed in the making or creating of a product or outcomes. The procedures that one goes through in....
The term often refers specifically to a planned sequence of instruction, or to a view of the student's experiences in terms of the educator's or school's instructional goals.
A curriculum may incorporate the planned interaction of pupils with instructional content, materialsThe resources that artists, craftspeople and designers use to create work, to include thread, plastic, stone, wood, clay, paint and paper, resources, and processes for evaluating the attainment of educational objectives.
Curricula are split into several categories: the explicit, the implicit (including the hidden), the excluded, and the extracurricular.
Curricula may be tightly standardized or may include a high level of instructor or learner autonomy.
Many countries have national curricula in primary and secondary education, such as the United Kingdom's National Curriculum.