EDS100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Hidden Curriculum
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It examines how education functions within broader social structures. It"s less prominent within education students in general & teacher training specifically. Education servers the link b/w social origins & destinations. Sociology: focused on aggregate within an interest in society/community as its focus. Education: teaching is concerned with individual students & particular learning environments. Students from diverse backgrounds become homogenized to a hidden curriculum, dominant culture & elite goals. Sorting of students by class, ethnicity & inequality. Networking of students into professionals or personal relationships. Schools are socialization agencies that teach kids how to serve others & prepared them for adult economic roles. Hidden curriculum can reinforce the lessons of the formal curriculum or it can contradict the formal curriculum, instructional norms & values aren"t openly acknowledged by teachers or school officials.
