The school is a place where children and young people grow up, connecting the family and society. The role of the school is to enable the development of young personalities into rightful and competent society members, which implies the educational aspect – adoption of general theoretical and professional knowledge, but also of society norms, attitudes, and values.
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Hidden Curriculum and School Culture as Postulates of a Better Society
Renata Jukić (J. J. Strossmayer University of Osijek, Croatia)
Copyright: © 2019
|Pages: 22
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5799-9.ch001
Abstract
When considering the role of school as the most widespread institution among all social organizations, one cannot avoid the question of its educational role in the development of each individual, but also of its function as an instance of transfer of socially desirable values. In following the sociological and pedagogical perspectives, it is necessary to ask oneself which mechanisms within the school enable the adoption of attitudes and building of the value system in children and young people, how much can be systemized, prescribed, and controlled by pedagogical experts and teachers, to what extent they are aware of the entire process, which part of it belongs to intentional education, and which part belongs to the field of the hidden, implicit curriculum, and what the role of the institution (school) culture in the formation of value patterns in the contemporary society is. This chapter explores this hidden curriculum.