Curriculum is an important element of education. This is because; the objectives of education are reflected in the curriculum.

Hence, the objectives of education are achieved by the school programs, concerning knowledge, experience, activities, skills and value. s a general, curriculum is an educational plan that includes outline goals and objectives, a written document to serve as a guide and reference. Curriculums are used in school, university, collage and so on. Curriculum can be to achieve their goal, vision and mission. The studying of curriculum notice that there are many existing definition and that the literature on curriculum seems to place great importance on the exact words used to define the area. Traditionally, curriculum was perceived as information passed from one generation to another generation in the form of organi!ed knowledge. "ased on #on $iles, the definition of curriculum can be divided to four common groups%

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The definition of curriculum can be divided to four common which is, curriculum as a subject, curriculum as a plan, curriculum as an experience and curriculum as an outcome.

Curriculum as &ubject 'atter

(irstly, curriculum can be defines as subject matter. (or example subject matter in mathematics, science, )nglish, history, and so on. Curriculum as subject matter is one of content the way that we organi!e and assimilate information. *n others word, subject matter or content in terms of different grade or level. There are many existing definition that talk about curriculum as subject matter. The curriculum should consist essentially of disciplined study in five areas% command of the mother tongue and systematic study of grammar, literature, and writing, mathematics, science, and foreign language. +onetheless, curriculums as subject matter are simply same to knowledge that comes from the disciplines and also known as written document.

Curriculum as a plan

&econdly, curriculum can be defines as a plan. 0lan is one of the process of setting goals, developing strategies and outlining tasks and schedules to accomplish the goals. The curriculum is a planned program of learning opportunities to achieve broad educational goals and related objectives. This is because; curriculum is all of the learning of students that is planned by the school to attain its educational goals. &ome peoples are said that curriculum is a plan for learning and plan for instruction. The plans are set by their own school. $hen we talk about curriculum as a plan, this curriculum is a set of planned and guided learning experience for learners2 continuous and willful growth. &o, curriculum known as a plan which is that the plan can be used to achieve the educational goals and objectives.

Curriculum as an experience

Thirdly, curriculum also can be defines as an experience. curriculum is those experiences set up by the school for the purpose of disciplining student and youth in group ways of thinking and acting. "ecause, using the curriculum are includes all of the experiences that learner have under by school. (or example, this views are considers almost anything in school, even outside of school as part of the curriculum. ccording to &tate &hepherd and -agan, the curriculums consist of the ongoing experiences of children under the guidance of the school 3. ,nder an experience, curriculum is the life and program of school and also an enterprise in guided living. *n other words, curriculum is all experiences children have under the guidance of teachers.

Curriculum as an outcome

.astly, curriculum will know as an outcome. Curriculum as an outcome comes from that what we are plan, develop the strategies, experience and so on. $hen we talk about outcome of curriculum, curriculum is concerned not with what student will do in the learning situation, but with what they will learn as a conse4uence of what they do. &o, curriculum is concerned with their results. +onetheless, curriculum is all of the experience that individual learners have in a program of education whose purpose is to achieve broad goals and related specific objectives. (or example, in school, there are a lot of program of education that will helps to achieve that goals and objective.

&hepherd and -agan, 'odern )lementary Curriculum, pp. 567

8efinition of curriculum% curriculum can be defined as a plan for action or a written document that includes strategies for achieving desired goals 91rnstein : (rancis 0. Hunkins, 3;;<=. #. >alen &aylor defines curriculum as a plan for providing sets of learning opportunities for person to be educated?. Curriculum is an organi!ed set of formal education or training intentions5.

"esides that, curriculum also is the program of school that offered to its students. The definition of curriculum are includes a system for dealing with people and the processes or the organi!ation of personnel and procedures for implementing that system. The system can be either linear or nonlinear. linear system is a process to achieve a desired end. $hereby nonlinear system is the permit of curriculum to operate with flexibility and to enter at various point of model, skip component or parts, reverse order and work on more than one component at time. 1ther than that, curriculum can also be viewed as a field of study, comprising its own foundations and domains of knowledge as well as its own research, theory, and principles to interpret this knowledge. Curriculum can be considered in terms of subject matter such as mathematics, science, )nglish, history and so on. The subject matter simply defines about the different of grade levels.

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