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This 6 page paper explains and discusses what the hidden curriculum is. One fact is that more lessons are learned through the hidden curriculum than through the open curriculum. What teachers and students bring to the learning experience affects the hidden curriculum. The symbols of the school culture are also part of the hidden curriculum. Beliefs may be the strongest element in the hidden curriculum. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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above (1999). Mariani goes on to say that in todays educational circles, there is a great deal of talk about standards, objectives, timetables, technologies and so on but these represent
that small part that could be referred to as the tip of the iceberg (1999). These are the things that can be seen and heard, the overt curriculum (Mariani, 1999).
The other curriculum is the hidden, the covert curriculum and this is comprised of what people, i.e., students, teachers, administrators, parents, bring to the process (Mariani, 1999). What they bring
is their expectations, their motivations, their attitudes, their beliefs, their own self-concept (Mariani, 1999). Mariani states: "this submerged" curriculum is largely unknown, rarely spoken about, and very often underestimated" (1999).
Pang says that the hidden curriculum "may be thought of as outcomes from teaching/learning activities that are not part of the explicit intentions of those responsible for the planning of
those activities" (2003). Both Pang and Mariani are saying that schools teach students many things, perceptions, feelings, attitudes, beliefs, meanings and skills that are not part of any planned instruction.
These outcomes of the hidden curriculum are very often more powerful in students developing values, ideologies, and views than is the open or overt curriculum (Pang, 2003; Mariani, 1999). This
learning is accomplished indirectly, not through any spoken lesson or activity. One of the positive outcomes is often the development of common sense, the knowledge and insights everyone is expected
to have in a given culture. Horn defined the hidden curriculum as: "a broad category that includes all of the unrecognized and sometimes unintended knowledge, values, and beliefs that
are part of the learning process in schools and classrooms" (2003, p. 298). He also said that the hidden curriculum "is one of the most important and receives very little
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