{"id":3621,"date":"2013-04-24T09:19:29","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T08:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=3621"},"modified":"2013-04-24T09:19:29","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T08:19:29","slug":"the-peninsulars-hidden-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2013\/04\/24\/the-peninsulars-hidden-curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"The hidden curriculum at Plymouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the train last week for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plymouth.ac.uk\/staff\/dcotton\">Debby Cotton's<\/a> inaugural lecture, rounding off Plymouth's 2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.plymouth.ac.uk\/research\/pedrio\/Pages\/default.aspx\">PedRIO<\/a> research day. \u00a0 I like Inaugurals; such grand occasions when newly-minted professors have the challenge of explaining what gets them up in the morning to, potentially, the broadest of audiences. \u00a0It's quite hard to do it well.<\/p>\n<p>I've been to a few over the years. \u00a0I recall the bloke, dressed in most superior splendour, who decided it would be good to use the lecture to criticise his university in front of its panjandrums. \u00a0Frost descended, and, like Steve Biko, no degree of besuitedness could help him. \u00a0He never recovered. \u00a0And then there\u00a0was the colleague who began ...<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\"The last time I gave this talk was in New York, where I was ...\".<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jaws dropped; nothing in my life could give me the confidence (a kind word) to do that, but it was just right for someone who'd been professing all over the place for years. \u00a0Sadly, the rest of the talk was less memorable.<\/p>\n<p>So, I looked forward to my day out in Plymouth, and it was worth the trip. \u00a0Debby spoke well about the <em>hidden curriculum<\/em> talking in detail about a number of examples from her research.<\/p>\n<p>Hidden from whom, always seems a pertinent question. \u00a0I first read about the phenomenon in Jackson &amp; Marsden's <em><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books?id=bHNUJzsL2b4C&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=jackson+and+marsden+1962&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=QpN3UcuvFO3u0gX2u4DADA&amp;ved=0CDYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;q=jackson%20and%20marsden%201962&amp;f=false\">Education and the Working Class<\/a><\/em> (1962), a copy of which I still have, although I'd probably learnt a lot <em>through<\/em> it (the\u00a0<em>hidden curriculum<\/em> that is),\u00a0at my \"good\" grammar school. \u00a0It seems to me that, when you get down to it, the <em>hidden curriculum<\/em> is (always) about value gaps. \u00a0Most times, it is an exposure of underlying, core values, and the only way it can be minimised is when an institution aligns its actions with those values. \u00a0Where these are always fully aligned (impossible, mostly, of course), then there is no <em>hidden curriculum<\/em> \u2013 and maybe nothing else to learn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the train last week for Debby Cotton's inaugural lecture, rounding off Plymouth's 2013 PedRIO research day. \u00a0 I like Inaugurals; such grand occasions when newly-minted professors have the challenge of explaining what gets them up in the morning to,...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-talks-and-presentations"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}