Learning Content Revisited: Basis for Creating a System of Educational (Pedagogical) Activities

Overview of the development of curriculum theory and practice is presented with the background of the scientific principles for curriculum analysis and planning. The central role of the learning content and possible structures for its formulation in curricula are discussed. Development of four IGIP prototype curricula is analyzed. The results of the pilot study on the importance of the learning content and its structure in the school curricula are presented. Opinions regarding the value of the content of learning in national curricula collected from school teachers by a questionnaire and from school textbook publishers by semi-structured interviews are analyzed and the concept of teachers’/lecturers’ professional curriculum “reading skills” are discussed. The field of curriculum administration and management contains the whole process starting with specification of demand for education, design of reform ending up with implementation of regularly updated curricula with corresponding plan of specified resources (time, finances, competent professionals).