Blog 3

I have chosen to do my paper on the hidden curriculum. A lot of my schooling I have had seemed to focus a lot on the hidden curriculum , I think it is very important but sometimes I think it takes over the actual curriculum a student must learn. I found most my teachers would spent most their time “babysitting” us or telling us right from wrong. Lots of the hidden curriculum statements like “don’t talk while I am speaking”that the teacher states does encompass many things to learn respect but is that the teachers job? The hidden curriculum is something that is not intended but happens. For example, at recess it gives students the time to transmit different norms and beliefs onto one another. Students learn how to act at school and how to treat other students by in a way using the hidden curriculum. The way students adapt and fit in with other students is something school doesn’t teach you but you teach yourself.

In my paper I want to look at how hidden curriculum can be important and also how it can negatively affect students and different learners. Hidden curriculum also has its downsides which I want to further look at how they affect the students themselves. One scholar I have decided to use is Jean Anyon and her idea of hidden curriculum. In my summary I want to talk about how hidden curriculum can be either positive or negative. This hidden curriculum is something that is not apart of the actual curriculum that a student must learn, it is the things the students learn by simply just attending school.  I want to find articles that focus on the hidden curriculum of different students that come from unique backgrounds, the positive and negative effects of hidden curriculum, and how it affects different learners.