The Curriculum Now and Its Trends

This text deals with the curriculum, in the sense in which it is usually conceived today, it has an inclusive capacity or power that allows us to make of it an essential instrument to talk, discuss and contrast our visions of what we believe to be the educational reality, how we account for what is the present, how and what value schooling had in the past and imagine the future, as it is contained in what we intend the student to learn; what we want him/her to become and improve. The curriculum, its implementation, has conditioned our practices. It is an instituting component of the educational reality we live in; it could be said that it shapes it. However, the dominant practices at a given moment also condition it; that is to say, the curriculum is at the same time instituted in its realization. And that allows education to raise the human being to the highest level of spiritual development.