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Human Growth and Development / Unit 7   HGD 0950 short lesson, about 20 seconds

The Hidden Curriculum

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The idea

The hidden curriculum, a term from Philip Jackson in nineteen sixty-eight, is the unspoken rules and values a school teaches through how it is organized.

In practice

A strict dress code signalling conformity; turn-taking teaching patience; metal detectors signalling danger.

Where people slip

No lesson plan lists these lessons, yet students learn them every day from the way school works.

Your place on the trail

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