Outside Curriculum

Outside curriculum refers to the purport and patterns of teaching and learning that occur in [Page 625]nonschool contexts of life. As with school curricula, outside curricula could be analyzed in terms of diverse venues: intents or explicit policy dimensions; hidden or implicit dimensions (sometimes referred to as hidden curriculum); aspects that are part of the act of instruction, or taught curricula; tested curricula, relatively narrow bands that are subjected to evaluation; learned curricula, or that which is acquired and applied from the educational experience; embodied curricula, or that which becomes part of a person's existence and guides his or her life. Thus, outside curricula are those dimensions of life experience that help shape a person's outlook and ways of negotiating the world. Outside curricula should ...