HED4802
PORTFOLIO ASSESSMENT
DUE DATE: 21 January 2025
Written Assignment Submission Guidelines:
Please ensure that your assignment is submitted electronically through the myUnisa platform no
later than January 2025. Kindly note that fax or email submissions will not be accepted.
NB: Assignment submitted to the lecturer(s) through email will not be considered.
ACTIVITY 1
Create a visual representation (e.g., concept map, mind map, infographic, or diagram) that outlines
the different definitions and perspectives on the term “curriculum.”
VISUAL REPRESENTATION ON THE NEXT PAGE
, 1. Traditional Definition: 2.Curriculum as a Syllabus:
Curriculum as a prescribed set of lessons, In this view, curriculum is simply a list of
content, and materials that are delivered topics or subjects that are covered within
by the teacher in the classroom. It often a certain time frame, typically set out by
focuses on academic subjects like educational authorities or institutions.
mathematics, science, and language.
3. Curriculum as a Plan for Learning: 4. Curriculum as Experience:
A structured and planned series of Modern perspectives on curriculum
educational experiences designed to emphasize the experiential aspects of
meet specific learning objectives or learning, where the curriculum includes
outcomes. It is typically formalized in a not only planned lessons but also the
curriculum document. experiences learners encounter in the
learning process.
5. Hidden Curriculum:
6. Null Curriculum:
The informal or unintended lessons that curriculum
students learn in the classroom, often Refers to what is omitted or not taught in
related to societal norms, behaviors, and the curriculum, which could shape
values that are not explicitly taught. It students' understanding of what is
includes aspects like hierarchy, discipline, important or relevant in society.
and gender roles.
8. Curriculum as Social Reconstruction:
7. Curriculum as an Ongoing Process:
This view sees curriculum as a tool to
Some perspectives see curriculum as a challenge social injustices and
dynamic process that evolves and adapts inequalities, with an emphasis on social
over time, responding to the needs of the change and empowerment of
students, the community, and society. marginalized groups.
9. Culturally Relevant Curriculum: 10. Critical Pedagogy: A curriculum that
Focuses on the importance of including encourages students to question and
culturally diverse perspectives in the challenge power structures, societal
curriculum to make learning more norms, and injustices, promoting critical
meaningful and connected to the thinking and social action.
students' cultural backgrounds.
PORTFOLIO ASSESSMENT
DUE DATE: 21 January 2025
Written Assignment Submission Guidelines:
Please ensure that your assignment is submitted electronically through the myUnisa platform no
later than January 2025. Kindly note that fax or email submissions will not be accepted.
NB: Assignment submitted to the lecturer(s) through email will not be considered.
ACTIVITY 1
Create a visual representation (e.g., concept map, mind map, infographic, or diagram) that outlines
the different definitions and perspectives on the term “curriculum.”
VISUAL REPRESENTATION ON THE NEXT PAGE
, 1. Traditional Definition: 2.Curriculum as a Syllabus:
Curriculum as a prescribed set of lessons, In this view, curriculum is simply a list of
content, and materials that are delivered topics or subjects that are covered within
by the teacher in the classroom. It often a certain time frame, typically set out by
focuses on academic subjects like educational authorities or institutions.
mathematics, science, and language.
3. Curriculum as a Plan for Learning: 4. Curriculum as Experience:
A structured and planned series of Modern perspectives on curriculum
educational experiences designed to emphasize the experiential aspects of
meet specific learning objectives or learning, where the curriculum includes
outcomes. It is typically formalized in a not only planned lessons but also the
curriculum document. experiences learners encounter in the
learning process.
5. Hidden Curriculum:
6. Null Curriculum:
The informal or unintended lessons that curriculum
students learn in the classroom, often Refers to what is omitted or not taught in
related to societal norms, behaviors, and the curriculum, which could shape
values that are not explicitly taught. It students' understanding of what is
includes aspects like hierarchy, discipline, important or relevant in society.
and gender roles.
8. Curriculum as Social Reconstruction:
7. Curriculum as an Ongoing Process:
This view sees curriculum as a tool to
Some perspectives see curriculum as a challenge social injustices and
dynamic process that evolves and adapts inequalities, with an emphasis on social
over time, responding to the needs of the change and empowerment of
students, the community, and society. marginalized groups.
9. Culturally Relevant Curriculum: 10. Critical Pedagogy: A curriculum that
Focuses on the importance of including encourages students to question and
culturally diverse perspectives in the challenge power structures, societal
curriculum to make learning more norms, and injustices, promoting critical
meaningful and connected to the thinking and social action.
students' cultural backgrounds.
