ABSTRACT
A 'syllabus' is usually a summary statement about the content to be taught in a course or unit, often linked to an external examination. Curriculum is quite often defined as a product — a document which includes details about goals, objectives, content, teaching techniques, evaluation and assessment, resources. Walker argues that the fundamental concepts of curriculum include: content, purpose, and organization. Tripp refers to determining characteristics of curriculum, specifically: intentions, planning, explication, harmony, and relations. Curriculum workers are many and include school-based personnel such as teachers, principals, and parents and university-based specialists, industry and community groups and government agencies and politicians. P. Jackson suggests that a large number of those working in the curriculum field are involved in serving the daily and technical needs of those who work in schools. This has been the traditional role where the focus has been upon curriculum development for school contexts.
