The Hidden Curriculum & Socialization Messages in Primary Schools

These flashcards cover key concepts of the hidden curriculum and socialization messages present in primary schools.

Hidden Curriculum

The non-academic lessons and values students learn in school beyond the formal curriculum./Embedded practices and school routines that promote norms, values, and orientations that are relevant to adult life.

Crowds

The necessity for students to learn to live and work in large groups, requiring patience, tolerance, and control.

Praise and Evaluation

The process in schools where students are constantly judged; it includes public exposure and can lead to anxiety.

Power in the Classroom

The significant imbalance of authority where the teacher is the central figure who directs student behavior.

Emotional Detachment

A coping mechanism developed by students to buffer themselves from the pressures of classroom life.

Socialization Goals

Objectives in education aimed at maintaining order, work effort, and school identification among students.

Old Values

Traditional academic values emphasizing abstract thought, rigor, and discipline.

New Values

Modern educational values focusing on creativity, emotional expression, and practical life skills.

Compliance

The expectation for students to follow rules, respect others, and keep materials organized.

Achievement

The emphasis on effort, diligence, and academic success within the classroom.

Organizational Framework

Levels of classroom and school organization where socialization messages are embedded.

Teacher-initiated Interactions

Interactions led by teachers that often focus on compliance and achievement.

Activity Centers

Preventing boredom and managing large groups

Socialization Messages

The values and behaviors transmitted to students through formal and informal school practices.

Formal curriculum

The subjects taught in school such as history, math, civics and literature which often carry messages about societal values and expected behaviors

School wide programs

School assemblies, behavior codes, extracurricular activities, and special events that foster collective identities and reinforce institutional norms

teacher initiated interactions

how teachers manage their classrooms, which encompasses how they discipline students, offer praise and model behaviors, which directly shape students understanding of rules and expectations/Compliance and achievement

Peer Interactions

when students learn from peers such as social skills, norms, values, cooperation, competition, and the adherence to group dynamics

School routines and enviroment

daily routines, school layput, and rules such as waiting in line no chewing gum or fighting with otherswhich teach students about order, punctuality, and conformity tothe institutional structure

Which of the following is NOT one of Robert Dreeben’s four features of the hidden curriculum?

Competition as the core of school culture

According to Philip Jackson, which of the following is one of the “three facts of classroom life”?

 Crowds

What does Jackson mean by Praise and Evaluation?

Students are constantly judged and compared, often publicly

According to Jackson, how do students typically cope with the pressures of crowds, evaluation, and power?

They develop coping strategies like emotional detachment

Primary schools mainly socialize students into:

Order, work effort, and school identification

Socialization messages are found in

Curriculum, programs, routines, teachers, and peers