SOC 207 Chapter Notes - Chapter 23: The Hidden Curriculum, Hidden Curriculum, Jean Anyon
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Social class and the hidden curriculum of work. The working class schools: mechanical, little decision making. Work is getting the right answer : more right answers you get, the better grade you get, follow directions to get the right answer where to go. Things in the past happened and we don"t need to analyze why it. Work is creative activity carried out independently : asked to express concepts, illustration of ideas, written stores or essays, representations of ideas in craft form, work is unique to them and not similar to others, **individualist society. Work is developing one"s analytical intellectual powers (8: instead makes them think about it, reason, conceptualize rules, think how things fit together, prepare kids for a successful life. Executive elite schools: examples, math, asks them to make their own formula, decision making, tries it the kids way and then analyzes it, asks kids if they disagree with her.
