Hidden Curriculum Passages/Inquiry

Hidden Curriculum Passages/Inquiry

1. Various Years in History - A Hodgepodge of Curriculum Orientations including Traditionalists

   • Tyler - "Prophet of Evaluation" (Pinar, p.142), Tyler Rational - obj., learning exp., organization, eval...fundamental assumptions regarding American Culture (Pinar, p.17)
   • Selected Curriculum Texts and their Major Sections/Units; Selected Curriculum Texts and Categorization or Orientation (p.18, 21)
   • "Developments in curriculum do not occur in a vacuum." (Tanner & Tanner, 1990)
   • The Various years' hodgepodge overlaps with 1970's

2. Questions

   • 1. Is it possible to write curriculum without any aspects of hidden curriculum?
   • 2. If it is not possible to write curriculum without aspects of hidden curriculum, is this okay? Is hidden curriculm ever harmless?
   • 3. If hidden curriculum can be harmless, when is it harmless and when is it not?

3. 1970's Reconceptulalist

   • Huebner - a need to examine curriculum historically (Pinar, p. 213)
   • Macdonald - developmental theory is culturally and society bound - how shall we live together? (Pinar, p. 217,218)
   • Bateman
     • Bateman said, "The pedagogy of domination mythologizes reality; the pedagogy of liberation demythologizes it. There is no way to be neutral, no way to be apolitical...Schooling is not neutral politically; it takes place in an institution designed and operated by those in power; to serve those who will come into power, to teach each child to accept his preassigned place." (Pinar, p. 221-222)...ouch...
   • Apple - a call for research to examine "curriculum underneath the bureaucratic surface of schools." (Pinar, 227)
   • 1970's overlaps with 1940's
   • 1970's overlaps with Various Years - the Hodgepodge

4. 1940's.The middle..ASCD - "Functional Curriculum...led by teachers..social efficiency" (Pinar p. 142)

   • Synoptic Text #1 - Lee & Lee - teacher guides child's experiences
   • Synoptic Text #2 Bode - "high school should perpetuate our democtratic way of life." Pinar, p.143
   • Synoptic Text #3 Gwynn - "related all curr dev to current social trends." (Pinar p. 144)
   • 1940's overlaps with 1970's

5. 1920s and 1930's

   • Social Efficiency and American Business
   • Progressivism and Child Centeredness
   • George Counts -accept that curriculum is indoctrination which is inevitable. (Pinar, 127)
   • 1920's 1930's overlaps with 1940's
   • 1920's 1930's overlaps with the hodgepodge