Introduction

Learning Objectives

  • Identify aspects of the four curricula: explicit, hidden, null, and extracurricular
  • Critically analyze sociological influences of a hidden, null, and extracurricular curriculum.
  • Explain the differences of the four curricula
  • Identify how the different cognitive and affective domains of learning shape curricular design.

Curriculum, according to John Dewey (1902) “…is a continuous reconstruction, moving from the child’s present experience out into that represented by the organized bodies of truth that we call studies . . . the various studies . . . are themselves experience— they are that of the race” (p. 11–12). This chapter will focus on the different types of curriculum and the relationship between curricula, cognition, and affect. 

Who was John Dewey?  Here’s a quick introduction.