SOCI 3410H Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Institutional Theory, Summative Assessment, Heritage Language
5 Apr 2016
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Curriculum is the content of schooling: what should be taught when and in what order how much ime should be spent on each topics, method the teachers choose to relay the informaion is up to them. Not limited to familiar subjects like math, science, or reading: more far-reaching. It prepares students to become future workers and ciizens. The curriculum is a social construcion with many taken-for-granted assumpions about what knowledge should be transmited to young people. Developments in curriculum cannot be completely understood if the social, cultural and historical contexts in which they occurred are not taken into account. Structural funcionalists hidden curriculum is benevolent: students learn modern values through school rouines and procedures. Criical theorists contend that curriculum is the outcome of batles among antagonisic actors, with powerful interest groups usually winning out. Marxists hidden curriculum less benevolent: hidden curriculum is actually the culture of capitalism and the values that are subtly promoted are passivity and docility.
