Mind the gap
A tale of two curriculum fallacies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11437483 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kathleen Graves (University of Michigan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 197-209 |
| Publication date | 2023-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language Teaching (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0261-4448 • E-ISSN: 1475-3049 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0261444821000148 |
| OpenAlex | W3160734219 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 28 |
Throughout my professional life, I have been interested in the relationship between teachers and curriculum. As someone who has taught languages, educated teachers, and developed curriculum and materials, I have been puzzled by the separation of curriculum and teaching. In the US, this separation is encapsulated in the phrase ‘curriculum and instruction’, where they are seen as separate domains of research and responsibility (Doyle, 1992; Kaplan & Owings, 2015). Indeed, as a teacher educator, I would often hear the refrain from teachers, ‘I know how to plan a good lesson, but I'm not sure what the big picture is. How do the lessons fit together as a whole?’ I interpreted this to mean that they did not have a sense of the overall curricular structure and aims for their students’ learning. As a materials and curriculum developer, I saw my responsibility as providing a map for teachers that would show how the parts added up to a sensible whole
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2.67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |