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Curriculum In Urban Schools

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The term curriculum can be simply described as a set of rules or guidelines those are developed and implemented upon students in schools. It can also be regarded as the bible of education. Curriculum can also be defined as a set of subjects to be studied in a school or college. Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago defined curriculum as “permanent studies” where the rules of grammar, rhetoric and logic and mathematics education are emphasized. Over all the definitions, I personally believe that curriculum is simply a set of work that needs to be completed within the given time or any portion of work that needs to be completed by teachers in schools as per there requirement. Curriculum allows the teachers to work within the criteria …show more content…

Hence, once the curriculum is developed it is only established in urban areas schools to test on whether the teachers and students are able to cope with it or not? The curriculum development unit actually neglects the rural schools as they are mostly left ideal without knowing what is about to be introduced in schools and whether the teachers and students are satisfied with it or not. Therefore, only urban schools ideas are considered when developing the curriculum but rural school ideas are not taken into consideration. Thus, when the CDU encounters that the curriculum is successful in urban areas, it is then implemented in all schools of Fiji whereby the students in rural areas get to suffer or face learning difficulties with their teachers as some of the concepts mentioned in the curriculum are not related to their culture, society or daily lives. For example, a teacher conducting a class on the animals such as lion and monkeys, whereby, those animals are not found in …show more content…

Also, the parents play an important role when it comes to the development and implementation of the curriculum. They need to be told the reason for having the content in the curriculum by organising workshops for them. Thus, if the Fiji government lacks in funds they can have a website whereby the teachers, parents, students can make their suggestion regarding the curriculum development and where it needs to be improved. Also, in the CDU office one room needs to allocated for the library so that the developers are able to access the information and finding on how to develop the curriculum in Fiji. Not forgetting to unsure that the curriculum should be more related to Fiji context and learners everyday life

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