TY - JOUR
T1 - Curriculum and teachers
T2 - An encounter of languages and literatures
AU - Shkedi, Asher
PY - 2006/12
Y1 - 2006/12
N2 - This paper focuses on an innovative curriculum for teaching culturally valued texts and the issues around the curriculum's implementation by teachers. The writers of this curriculum considered the subject-matter of this curriculum as a cultural 'language' containing specific concepts, attitudes, and modes of thought. The curriculum itself is seen as a 'literature' by means of which the subject-matter is formed into an educational approach. I argue that the actual encounter between the teachers and the written curriculum can be seen as an encounter between different subject-matters and different educational approaches of the curriculum and the teachers. In the encounter the teachers create their own approaches for teaching the culturally-valued texts, and this is different from the one offered them by the writers of the curriculum. I contend that the lack of compatibility between the subject-matter and educational understandings of the curriculum writers and teachers may explain why the teachers failed to adopt the approach of the curriculum.
AB - This paper focuses on an innovative curriculum for teaching culturally valued texts and the issues around the curriculum's implementation by teachers. The writers of this curriculum considered the subject-matter of this curriculum as a cultural 'language' containing specific concepts, attitudes, and modes of thought. The curriculum itself is seen as a 'literature' by means of which the subject-matter is formed into an educational approach. I argue that the actual encounter between the teachers and the written curriculum can be seen as an encounter between different subject-matters and different educational approaches of the curriculum and the teachers. In the encounter the teachers create their own approaches for teaching the culturally-valued texts, and this is different from the one offered them by the writers of the curriculum. I contend that the lack of compatibility between the subject-matter and educational understandings of the curriculum writers and teachers may explain why the teachers failed to adopt the approach of the curriculum.
KW - Cultural context
KW - Curriculum development
KW - Jewish education
KW - Teacher knowledge
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33845272751&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/00220270500221802
DO - 10.1080/00220270500221802
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AN - SCOPUS:33845272751
SN - 0022-0272
VL - 38
SP - 719
EP - 735
JO - Journal of Curriculum Studies
JF - Journal of Curriculum Studies
IS - 6
ER -