EDUCATION (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Curriculum materials are educational resources that provide curriculum and instructional experiences for preschool through 12th grade (P-12) students. These materials are used by educators to develop curricula and lesson plans and may also be used in actual instructional situations with P-12 students.

Detailed explanation-2: -John Dewey defines curriculum as a continuous reconstruction, moving from the learner’s present experience out into that represented by the organized bodies of truth that we call studies… the various studies… are themselves experience-they are that of the race.

Detailed explanation-3: -• According to Cunningham: ‘Curriculum is a tool in the hand. of artist(teacher) to mould his material in accordance with his. ideas in the school’.

Detailed explanation-4: -According to Abdullahi ( 1982), instructional materials are materials or tools locally made or imported that could made tremendous enhancement of lesson impact is intelligently used. Ikerionwu ( Isola, 2010 ) referred to them as objects or devices, which help the teacher to make a lesson much clearer to the learner.