. It is directed towards a professional audience and focuses on contemporary issues and research relating to curriculum pedagogy and assessment.
ISSN 1174-2208
Notes for ContributorsTeachers and Curriculum welcomes:• research based papers with a maximum of 3,500 words, plus an abstract or professional summary of 150 words, and up to five keywords;• opinion pieces with a maximum of 1500 words; and• book or resource reviews with a maximum of 1000 words.
FocusTeachers and Curriculum provides an avenue for the publication of papers that• raise important issues to do with the curriculum, pedagogy and assessment;• reports on research in the areas of curriculum, pedagogy and assessment;• provides examples of informed curriculum, pedagogy and assessment; and• review books and other resources that have a curriculum, pedagogy and assessment focus.
Teachers and Curriculum, Volume 13, 2013ii Teachers and Curriculum, Volume 13, 2013Submitting articles for publication The article should clearly show where each is to appear within the text. All submissions must be submitted as word documents. Only the first page of the article should bear the title, the name(s) of the author(s) and the address to which reviews should be sent. In order to enable 'blind' refereeing, please do not include author(s) names on running heads. Foot/End Notes: These should be avoided where possible; the journal preference is for footnotes rather than endnotes.Referencing: References must be useful, targeted and appropriate. The Editorial preference is APA style; see Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (Sixth Edition). Please check all citations in the article are included in your references list and in the correct style.Covering letter: When submitting a manuscript to Teachers and Curriculum, authors must, for ethical and copyright reasons, include in a covering letter a statement confirming that a) the material has not been published elsewhere, and b) the manuscript is not currently under consideration with any other publisher. A fax and email contact should also be supplied. Editorial: All contributions undergo rigorous peer review by at least two expert referees. The Editors reserve the right without consulting the author(s) to make alterations that do not result in substantive changes. The Editors' decisions about acceptance are final. Copyright: Publication is conditional upon authors giving copyright to the Faculty of Education, The University of Waikato. Requests to copy all or substantial parts of an article must be made to the Editors.
Acknowledgement of ReviewersThe Editors would like to acknowledge the contribution of the reviewers.