Starting points : paradigms in mother-tongue education

Wayne Sawyer, Piet-Hein van de Ven

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    Abstract

    Mother-tongue education curriculum is in a constant state of debate. Indeed, the field may be accurately characterised as polyparadigmatic. We use three specific sets of analyses to discuss the curriculum variety of the field: ten Brinke’s classification of dimensions, Matthijssen’s rationality theory and Englund’s concept of competing meta-discourses. We then conceptualise the field in terms of paradigm competition, specifically discussing academic, developmental, communicative and utilitarian paradigms. We finish with a case study of the historiography of curriculum paradigms in English.
    Original languageEnglish
    Number of pages16
    JournalL1 Educational Studies in Language and Literature
    Publication statusPublished - 2007

    Keywords

    • curricula
    • education
    • language acquisition
    • language and education
    • native language
    • native language and education

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