Section: Curriculum Development | ASPIRE submission home | AMEE ESME


  • A curriculum is a statement of the intended aims and objectives, experiences, outcomes and processes of an educational programme (Grant, 2006). A curriculum describes all the ways in which a training or teaching organisation plans and guides learning. This learning can take place in groups or with individual learners. It can take place inside or outside a classroom. It can take place in an institutional setting like a school, college or training centre, or in a village or a field. It is central to the teaching and learning process (Rogers and Taylor 1998). 

    The focus of this ASPIRE award is on curriculum development, not primarily on the curriculum itself (although inevitably that has to be considered as part of the evaluation of its development).