Curriculum is defined as a design or planning of an institution or country and it is by itself encompasses a
wide range of meaning which covers a whole programme that has been planned (Slaughter, 1997). Longstreet
and Shane (1993) stressed that futures studies is a study on future society and not a study about the future.
Combining these both definitions by Saedah Siraj (2001) on curriculum and Longstreet and Shane (1993) on
futures studies resulted in the definition of future curriculum as a design or planning of the whole education
programme for future society.
Therefore, future curriculum is a curriculum developed today for tomorrow based on systematic