The Five Concepts Of The Australian National Curriculum

Although the Australian National Curriculum provides educators with a teaching framework, the curriculum is more than just a document, it is the curriculum experienced by students. Blaise and Nuttall (2011) suggests that it is imperative for educators to understand all five concepts of curriculum which interlink within the education system to teach students as they provide a more complex understanding of curriculum and how it is experienced (p .82). These concepts consist of the intended curriculum, the enacted curriculum, the hidden curriculum, the null curriculum and the lived curriculum (Blaise & Nuttall, 2011, p. 82)
The intended curriculum (The Australian National Curriculum) is the official curriculum framework set out by the government and provides guidelines to assist schools and teachers in the planning and teaching of various subjects the government expect students to experience within the classroom (Blaise & Nuttall, 2011, p. 83). These guidelines clarify what will be learned (the curriculum content), when it will be learned (the arrangement of content) and describes how teachers and parents will know it has been learnt (through assessments) (Blaise & Nuttall, 2011, p. 85).
87). While planning is essential for teaching the content of the official curriculum teachers will also need an awareness of the unplanned events which occur at school and affect the delivery of content (Marsh & Wallis, 2007, p.