ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses some characteristics of a curriculum. The curriculum policy document is often referred to as the planned curriculum. The hidden curriculum goes beyond the classroom and encompasses the ways in which educational systems and institutions are structured and the way in which daily educational routines play out. Harison tells of a class of refugee English learners in New Zealand. Materials that were of interest to the class were hard to come by, so some of the teachers took on the extra responsibility of developing worksheets that they thought would be more interesting for the students. A teacher might find that students are not particularly interested in what she or he has prepared, or they don’t appear to have learned what was taught to them.
