curriculum

A curriculum is a structured plan for organizing learning content, sequences, and assessments into a coherent program. It specifies what knowledge and skills are to be taught, in what order, and how mastery is measured. Parameters: (1) scope — the domain of knowledge or skills covered; (2) sequence — the order in which topics are presented, progressing from foundational to advanced; (3) assessment — the methods for measuring learner mastery; (4) duration — the time span over which the program operates. Persistence mechanism: curricula persist through institutional codification (syllabi, standards documents), pedagogical tradition (teacher training that transmits the plan), and administrative enforcement (accreditation, grading systems). A curriculum is the map of a learning journey, not the journey itself — it organizes the territory of knowledge for pedagogical traversal.\n\n[curriculum: from Latin currere, to run; the course one runs through knowledge. Substrate: mind. Horizon: a life. Explicit: yes. Epoch: 0.19]