
Draws to the idea that schools do more than simply transmit knowledge, as laid down in the official curricula. It is often used to criticize the social implications, political underpinnings, and cultural outcomes of modern educative activities. While early examiations were concerned with identifying the anti-democratic nature of schooling, later st...
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A hidden curriculum is a side effect of an education, `[lessons] which are learned but not openly intended” such as the transmission of norms, values, and beliefs conveyed in the classroom and the social environment. Any learning experience may teach unintended lessons. Hidden curriculum often refers to knowledge gained in primary and secondary....
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subtle presentations of political or cultural ideas in the classroom
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Traits of behaviour or attitudes that are learned at school, but which are not included within the formal curriculum. The hidden curriculum is the ‘unstated agenda` involved in schooling â€` conveying, for example, aspects of gender differences.
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All the messages that a school conveys to pupils which are not written down as the formal curriculum, eg caring attitudes.
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social knowledge, behavioural traits and expectations inculcated in young people inexplicitly and indirectly by educational institutions, which serve to prepare students for their likely future roles in the division of labour, including their acceptance of the discipline of the workplace.
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