SOCA02H3 Lecture Notes - Hidden Curriculum, Delayed Gratification, Naimans
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Knezevic: size enterprises necessitates a literate workforce who need not be trained face to face. It homogenizes knowledge, attitudes and values of the population. Despite its striving for meritocracy, it perpetuates inequality. The school introduces students to the adult world: an impersonal setting in which universal standards of achievement apply. School is probably the most meritocratic institution you will ever belong to. Use of extra functional criteria is deliberately limited: and. After admission, role of luck is small. Students learn both a formal curriculum of school subjects and a hidden curriculum standards of behaviour that integrate them into the larger society. Hidden curriculum has cognitive components and social components. Focus on intellectual work rather than manual work. Values of self-discipline, orderliness, deference to and cooperation with authority, conformity, deferred gratification, independence (work without supervision). Modelling: teachers and texts results middle class students receive more praise and support.
