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This 5 page paper explores how a teacher's misunderstanding of a young student's actions and intents can be counterproductive in education. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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one element of the complex educational environment. Education is structured around both visible elements of the educational process and invisible elements and any misunderstandings that occur can relate to
one or the other or bothy. The books, desks, classroom organization, and course plans that are found in schools around the world are examples of the visible elements of
education. The expectations that are being placed on the student, the techniques that are used to motivate the student, and the particular learning styles of the student are
all invisible elements in education. The relationship that emerges is explored in detail in the original edition of "Life in Classrooms" (published in 1968 and last reprinted in
1990) by sociologist Philip Jackson who introduced the phrase "hidden curriculum" in that classic work. Jackson used the phrase to describe the other than visible elements that were at
play in the educational process. Although misunderstandings can revolve around visible elements as well, it is more typical that they revolve around the invisible, around the so-called "hidden curriculum".
Consider, as one example of a misunderstanding that can occur because of the invisible elements in the educational arena, a young child who
is standing obediently in line in the hall waiting for his class to take their respective turns in the restroom. The children in the line are all becoming somewhat
impatient and restless. The teacher, of course, is in charge of the situation and it is she that is directing one or two at a time to file into
their respective restrooms to fill the stalls as other children come out. Each child, when finished in the restroom has to progress back into the hall and take their
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