Unit Three: Formal Curriculum vs. Enacted Curriculum
Author: Carmita Sanchez-Fong
Go to: ETAP 623 Spring 2012
Go to portfolio page: A Pathfinder as a Coordination and Teaching Tool
Go to the mini-course: The Pathfinder Building Blocks
Target Objective
Formal curriculum being the written descriptions and guidelines to follow for a particular course and Enacted curriculum the actual transformations that takes place with the teacher-student interactions when implementing the given concepts. Learners will be able to identify the resources, digital and otherwise, that will support the curricular conversations.
Unit Objectives
- Execute the formal curriculum in the way that engages and excites the audience.
Let's Get Started
- Read "Beyond curriculum reform: embedding the transition experience." by Sally Kift and Karen Nelson.
- This abstract looks at the responsibilities, across the administrative and academic areas, of an institution of higher education to go beyond student retention to student engagement by understanding the changing patterns of student engagement and going beyond curriculum enhancements.
- Visit the "Fast Company" and read "Higher Education’s Purpose: A Healthy, Just, and Sustainable Society" (2010) by Anthony Cortese and Georges Dyer.
- Make a list of the outcomes the formal curriculum seeks to accomplish and see how the resources in the pathfinder will support the enriching curricular conversation of the enacted curriculum.
- Watch the following video: "Thank You Khan Academy!" by Mark Halberstad.
- <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDA3fF6WsVQ>
- An excellent, thought provoking, article on the unsustainable way in which we teach.
- Khan Academy provides free "world-class education to anyone, anywhere." We have all received thank you cards from our students, Sal at the Khan Academy got this one. It is the way all students should feel about their learning. The Khan Academy does not have a formal curriculum. It is 100% enacted curriculum, free of charge! At the time of this viewing the Khan Academy had delivered 150,873,787 lessons.
Build Your Research
Lewis, Robert. "Commodified curricular: the coursebook." Australian Universities Review 41.2 (1998):3-18. Web. 22 May 2012.
Reflect
What complex and intellectually challenging tasks will give students the opportunity to construct, analyze, and organize knowledge? What activities would you like to see in the pathfinder that will help you accomplish these goals?
References and Resources
Applebee, Arthur N. Curriculum as Conversation: Transforming Traditions or Teaching and Learning. Chicago: The
- University of Chicago Press, 1996. Print.
Cortese, Anthony and Dyer Georges. "Higher Education's Purpose: A Healthy, Just, and Sustainable Society." Fast
- Company. 28 Jan. 2010. Web. 27 Apr. 2012.
Thank You Khan Academy!. Mark Halberstad. Video. Web. 18 Mar. 2012.
Go to Unit One: Building a Pathfinder
Go to Unit Two: Course Coordination and Educational Quality
Go to Unit Three: Formal Curriculum vs. Enacted Curriculum
Go to Unit Four: Quality, Quantity, and Relatedness in the curriculum