Relationships and Processes within Schools/Hidden Curriculum

Question 1

Hidden Curriculum

Answer 1

the belief that schools subliminally teach a sinister set of lessons - a hidden curriculum. For example, learning to accept the hierarchical nature of society

Question 2

Correspondence principle

Answer 2

Is the notion that capitalist entrepreneurs have been responsible for the design of our education system and that everything we learn in schools fulfils an explicit need of future employers e.g. morning registration equates to clocking-in.

Question 3

Institutional sexism

Answer 3

The notion that what takes place within schools ensures that gender-based inequalities prevail due to the content of the formal and hidden curricula.

Question 4

Institutional racism

Answer 4

The notion that what takes place within schools ensures that racially based inequalities prevail due to the content of the formal and hidden curricula.