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Understanding the Hidden Curriculum

The document discusses the hidden curriculum, which refers to the unwritten and unofficial lessons, values, and perspectives that students learn in educational institutions. It provides information about what constitutes a hidden curriculum, such as the social norms and behaviors students learn, and notes that hidden curriculums can teach values and shape students' experiences more so than official curriculums. According to the document, hidden curriculums help schools meet social requirements and expectations.

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Understanding the Hidden Curriculum

The document discusses the hidden curriculum, which refers to the unwritten and unofficial lessons, values, and perspectives that students learn in educational institutions. It provides information about what constitutes a hidden curriculum, such as the social norms and behaviors students learn, and notes that hidden curriculums can teach values and shape students' experiences more so than official curriculums. According to the document, hidden curriculums help schools meet social requirements and expectations.

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Humamageswar Moorthy
Kasturi Rajagopal
Nanthini Subramaniam
Referred as a second curriculum but it does not
provide a clear and distinctive elements of the official
curriculum for students, such as feelings, values,
attitudes and habits of the official curriculum.

Hidden curriculum is apart from the objectives and


activities in official program, not explicitly defined,
unwritten and a curriculum of emerging information,
ideas and practices arising during process of learning
and teaching.

According to Lynch (1989), hidden curriculum


provides schools to meet social requirements.
Hidden curriculum consists of real-life experiences
which all students ought to internalize a curriculum
which consists of specific social norms to continue
as effective and productive citizens firstly at school
and then in a larger society.

Components of hidden curriculum are attribution


of values, beliefs, attitudes that individuals have at
the school, norms and rules that are important parts
of school functioning, ceremony and ritual and
interpersonal communication.

Students are exposed to many values through both


formal and hidden curriculum in school, but hidden
curriculum is more efficient in teaching values.

Hidden curriculum provides students with daily


experiences of their personal and social learning
and it gives a tremendous impact on students

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