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What is 'hidden curriculum'?

Date Submitted: 11/14/2004 15:30:15
Length: 6 pages (1523 words)
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'Every school has two curricula. One is the open curriculum, which we are already familiar with. The other curriculum, the hidden one, often has the greatest impact on an adolescent boy or girl. It is the hidden curriculum that molds self-esteem, aids or hinders confident social development, that helps make high school a time of pleasant memories, or turns the high school experience into an ordeal.' (Ruby Ausbrooks, Ed.D.) http://www.parentingteens.com/…

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…and that education is something that is done to them rather than something, which they do. The prevailing values of society are 'picked-up' by pupils." (Whitty & Young 1976) REFERENCE: 1.Valleance, E., "Hidden Curriculum", The International Encyclopedia of Curriculum, ed. Lewy A., Pergamon Press, 1991, 40-42 2.Paul Morris, The Hong Kong School Curriculum - Development, Issues and Policies, 2ng edition. 3.http://www.parentingteens.com/curriculum.shtml 4. http://www.derby.ac.uk/telmie/private/dublin/gender/hiddencurriculum.html

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