Hidden Curriculum

Hidden Curriculum

1. a side effect of an education, "[lessons] which are learned but not openly intended" such as the transmission of norms, values, and beliefs conveyed in the classroom and the social environment. Any learning experience may teach unintended lessons.

   • for example, how they should interact with peers, teachers, and other adults; how they should perceive different races, groups, or classes of people; or what ideas and behaviors are considered acceptable or unacceptable.

2. Formal Curriculum

   • consists of the courses, lessons, and learning activities students participate in, as well as the knowledge and skills educators intentionally teach to students
     • for example how to use a chainsaw, hammer and etc in Life Skills Subjects
   • Interdisciplinary Approach in Teaching
     • the use and integration of methods and analytical frameworks from more than one academic discipline to examine a theme, issue, question or topic
       • interdisciplinary education draws on multiple disciplines to acquire a deep and thorough understanding of complex issues and challenges students to synthesize what each of the disciplines offers before attempting to design efforts to resolve noted concerns
         • For example, the combination of boats and fishers in the Gulf of Mexico will be unable to produce any seafood for a period due to the condition of the Gulf waters as a result of the BP oil leak. Thus, expanding the standard economic framework used to understand economic growth to account for ecological insights provides a richer understanding of production and growth
     • Multidisciplinary Approach in Teaching