Assignment
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HiddenCurriculumandBias.pptxHidden Curriculum and Biases: The Hidden Messages in Schools
EDUC 330: Theoretical Perspectives on Culture and Cognition in Urban Education
Share 1 word or phrase that reflects the meaning of a curriculum. Explain your rationale for the word or phrase.
Purpose of the Curriculum
Is an official document that serves as a road map/blueprint for learning.
This document provides a set of standards, overarching goals, and desired outcomes for content.
Shows sequence of learning from grade to grade
Highlight what students need to do, how to do it, when to do it, and how to know if it has been mastered/achieved.
Types of Curriculum (Grathon, 2000)
Recommended Curriculum—Professional organizations or government (i.e. MSDE, U.S. Dept. of Education, Ministry of Ed.) suggests content and programs that need to be implemented in the curriculum.
Written Curriculum—Lesson plans, course of study, syllabi
Taught Curriculum—Focuses on what educators teach in the classroom setting
Supported Curriculum—instructional materials that support the curriculum
Tested Curriculum—identify what is being tested and evaluated to show what students know and their progress in learning
(Cont.)
Learned Curriculum—highlights what students have learned or the learning outcomes
Hidden Curriculum—Reflects what students learn in school that is not authorized and written. Students learn the norms of behaviors by teachers, administrators, peers, text, and images.
How Does the Hidden Curriculum Affects Students’ Learning and Participation
The implementation of a hidden curriculum involves educators intentionally or unintentionally transmitting their beliefs and biases to students via their attitudes and behaviors
“The hidden curriculum is in many cases where students are being taught their “proper” place or function in society.”—(Freire, 1970)
Expectation of students complying school norms or teachers’
Perpetuates stereotypes generalizations of roles that alienate/isolate students.
Contributes to 90% of the students’ learning and understanding of themselves in society. It can have a positive or negative impact (Maissales, 2004)
“Act like a lady.”
“Dress like a gentleman.”
“Tuck that shirt in.”
“Your hair must be groomed.”
Placing students on an ability track
Purpose of Analyzing the Hidden Curriculum
Understanding and identifying power-relations in the school and how schools play a part in maintaining social order and social reproduction inequality.
Acknowledging students’ behaviors based on the hidden curriculum (i.e. adapting, adopting, or resisting to norms/practices enforced by the teacher, staff, and administrators.
Hidden Curriculum and the Development of School Culture
Refers to the unspoken or implicit values, behaviors, and norms that exist in the educational setting.
Teachers may use the hidden curriculum in their teaching as strategy or method to send specific message to student through these approaches,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsR7KDL5aUw
Educator’s Responsibility on Dismantling the Hidden Curriculum
Understanding, evaluating, and taking action on how materials in your classroom sends messages.
Acknowledgement of demographics of people who are and are not present in the classroom. How are they presented? What are their roles?
Rearranging the classroom space
Clear and high expectations for all students in the classroom.
Activity (15 minutes)
In your breakout group, provide an image that reflects a hidden curriculum in the school or classroom space and can have a negative influence? Identify the unspoken messages that are being conveyed to students and members of the community. Describe a practice you will set up to change the message of the hidden curriculum in the school or classroom.
