Review article
Implicit Messages in the Hidden Curriculum of a Contemporary School
Vesnica Mlinarević
; Svečilište Josipa Jurja Strossmayera u Osijeku, Fakultet za odgojne i obrazovne znanosti, Osijek, Republika Hrvatska
Abstract
In a school culture that is constantly transforming, and in a learning organization, a curriculum is constantly being tested, complemented and changed in educational practice. Public and hidden curriculum corresponds with the environmental (physical and social) quality of living, learning and upbringing. Messages are integrated into the public curriculum structure through aim, values, content and expected outcomes. These messages seek for creating competent and confident person who is physically and psychologically healthy. Social organization and behavior patterns of a teacher has a consequent impact on participants of social interaction in class (students), and they represent a dominant cultural model, and also spread the hidden curriculum of society. A hidden curriculum combines publicly unrecognized and unforeseen values, knowledge and attitudes, which students then transform into behavioral life patterns. Unwritten rules and implied knowledge along with what is expected from learners on informal and implicit level and which is “difficult” to investigate and analyze in the school culture could be hidden in interaction with teachers of different value orientations. In teaching as a complex process, hidden messages affect interaction, creativity, critical thinking, motivation, success, socialization, self-respect, trust… Hidden curriculum is seen in everyday behavior of teachers, students and other adults where students, through different social interactions, receive messages for a lifetime, and those messages consequently influence the quality of school life.
Keywords
hidden curriculum; school culture; learner; implicit messages; teacher
Hrčak ID:
179014
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Publication date:
1.12.2016.
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