Key Curriculum Questions with a Focus on Schwab's View

What is the usefulness of posing questions in the field of curriculum? What are key curriculum questions? These are two questions which this research aimed to answer using descriptive, analytical, and deductive methods. In answering these questions, Joseph Schwab’s conception of curriculum is used to introduce a scheme of questions concerning the nature, elements, and practice of curriculum. Formulations of questions by other curriculum theorists are reviewed and analyzed in light of this scheme, and the various uses of such questions are described. How far the questions prove to enhance thinking and acting in the domain of curriculum is the ultimate criterion of the usefulness of the questions. The answer to this final test question, as to the others, is to be found in the circumstances of practice. The results Analysis showed can be used To understand, construct and practice curriculum.