In it, learning takes place in an unstructured and indirect manner. School is the most important institution of learning for formal education. In it, learning experiences are structured and organized systematically to achieve specific learning outcomes. In formal education, the school curriculum and the school teachers are very important facilitators of learning. In addition, learning occurs nonformally, which means that education is provided through institutions or organizations other than the formal school, for example, adult literacy classes.
Education covers a broad spectrum of issues.
Therefore, it is not surprising that the Muslim Ummah have been consistently reminded and cautioned by its scholars that the state of its education seems to be the root of its problems. Some scholars have reasoned that as a discipline, education consists of five subdisciplines, namely, curriculum, counseling, management, instruction, and evaluation. This article is an attempt to examine curriculum, which is one of these subdisciplines. Curriculum is so important that it has been named the queen of educational sciences. Curriculum is a reflection of the educational philosophy of the institution concerned, in fact, the mechanism by which its goals are attained.