Surveys of Enacted curriculum -

Running head: ENACTED CURRICULUM
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Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Table of Contents
A. Introduction.................................................................................................................................2
B. Enacted Curriculum of People in Organizations.........................................................................5
1. Communications of the instructor through enacted curriculum: Student centered approach of
instructor..........................................................................................................................................5
2. Possible reaction and actions embarked upon by the students: Active participation of the
students............................................................................................................................................6
3. Identification of the priority of learning......................................................................................7
4. The aspects of development to be assessed and the method of assessment................................7
5. The aspects of the intended curriculum are inherent within the enacted curriculum..................8
6. Null curriculum..........................................................................................................................9
C. Eisner’s Five Orientations for Intended and Implemented Curriculum......................................9
D. Developmental insights into awareness of the curriculum.......................................................11
E. Professional or personal tensions of the congruence between intended and enacted
implemented curriculum................................................................................................................11
F. Insights gained from this exercise.............................................................................................12
G. Conclusion................................................................................................................................12
References......................................................................................................................................14

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A. Introduction
Over the years the conceptions and orientations towards education has changed and that
has been motivated with the intention of providing the best possible educational facilities to the
children. That particular intention of catering to the best interest of the students is the driving
factor behind devoting much attention to the designing of curriculum, which is aimed at
developing a sound pedagogical approach. This hints at the basic definitional aspect of
curriculum which is basically aimed at the designing of a model that is meant for directing the
educational needs of the students. The model of education or the curriculum to be followed by
the teachers for the needs of the students is something which keeps on changing with the
progress of time in order to ensure that the academic progress of the students is nurtured and
catered to adequately (Brady & Kennedy, 2019).
The generic and the traditional understanding of curriculum is limited to the course
materials that are supposed to be taught to be at schools. The traditional understanding of
curriculum is the result which had resulted in the formation of the mainstream understanding of
education being academically oriented and essentially supposed to be offered by the schools.
However with the progress of time, in the post modern era the conception of curriculum has been
expanded and other aspects apart from academically oriented education which cater to the
overall development of the personality of a student is something which has been incorporated as
well. The post modern explanation of curriculum into account the areas of knowledge to be
incorporated into the materials to be studied, the skills that students are supposed to develop, and
most importantly the pedagogical approach to be employed by the teacher in order to ensure that
the educational requirements of the students are taken care of. Hence, the factors of learning

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standard, the objectives of learning and the assessments are the key aspects that contribute to the
development of the post modern understanding of curriculum. Thus it can be concluded that the
factor of devoting equal amount of importance to the role of the teachers and the educational
needs of the students is what makes the post modern conception of curriculum unique and
distinct from the traditional conception of curriculum. By virtue of the broadness of the
definitional aspect of the post modern conception of curriculum which takes into account all the
areas of well being of the students and also aims at bettering the role to be played by the
teachers, that it is quite advanced and is suited to better deal with the educational needs of the
students (Brady & Kennedy, 2019).
Intended curriculum is oriented towards the objectives that are arrived at in the beginning
of the development of a curriculum plan with the intention of meeting the specific goals,
purposes and objectives through the process of dissemination of education. Intended curriculum
is the plan while the attained curriculum is the result that has been achieved through the
implementation of the intended curriculum. The purpose behind choosing intended curriculum
for the purpose of analysis in this report is owing to the fact that for the purpose of achieving the
optimum results in the meeting of the educational requirements of the students. The intended
curriculum is aimed at providing an idea about what the curriculum maker intends to achieve
through the designing of the curriculum. It is on the basis of the intended curriculum that the
enacted curriculum is formulated. Enacted curriculum implies the course material and the course
plan is implemented in the classroom. The issue of intended curriculum cannot be understood
without taking into account the implemented or the enacted curriculum as that is the practical
aspect of the intended curriculum. The intended curriculum is a brief idea about the goals and
objectives which are supposed to be achieved and the implemented curriculum is the actual way