Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue

Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue is a scholarly journal of the American Association for Teaching and Curriculum. As such, it is one of several key journals that advance curriculum studies through provision of refereed articles on curriculum studies. Other major journals that deal exclusively with curriculum studies are Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Curriculum Inquiry, Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, and Journal of Curriculum Studies. Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue began to be published in 1998 and emphasizes five types of manuscripts: selected conference papers, open submission papers, book reviews, letters to the editor, and a dialogue column.

The journal guidelines for submitting manuscripts include the following: one original hard copy of the manuscript with the title, submission category, name, and contact information of the author; one abstract of 75 words or less; biographies of the authors; an electronic copy of the manuscript, abstract, and biography (in Word format) sent via e-mail to ctdjournal@jmu.edu; use of a 12-point font, double-spaced text, and page limits depending on category of submission; references in American Psychological Association style; any tables, figures, or graphs should be attached at the end of the manuscript with specific program used to create them noted and with place in manuscript indicated; and a self-addressed, stamped envelope for notification of manuscript arrival.

This journal's uniqueness is that it acknowledges a transactional quality between curriculum and teaching that is captured by the term dialogue. This assumption holds that curricular attributes are embedded within teaching and that teaching implicitly and explicitly embodies curricular positions. In order to understand curriculum and teaching, curriculum studies must explore the dynamic interplay between these two powerful conceptions in theory and in action. Pieces published in Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue focus on exploration and inquiry pertaining to such matters.