Essays on Hidden curriculum

The extent of working class underachievement in the British Educational System has been a very important subject for discussion in sociology research. Working class children underachieve considerably compared to the achievement attained by a middle class child at every level of education including SAT’s, GCSE’s, A-levels and degrees. Early research focused on reasons outside the…

In the essay Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work, by Jean Anyon, the education of five different schools with four different economic classes is examined. The samples examined were two working-class schools, one middle-class school, one affluent professional school, and one executive elite school. The author compares the five sample schools’ curriculums and…

There is and always has been a debate on what is the best way to educate the children of our nation. With many theories and perspectives, how do we say which one is better than the other? The variety of theories of how education is influenced, and how we view the learning and teaching process…

Functionalists emphasise positive aspects of schools, this is the idea of a ‘consensus’ perspective; where there is an agreement about what is valued within a society. These are like Emile Durkheim’s social facts or moral regulation in that they govern behaviour, and while they are coercive, they are also generally agreed upon where ‘The function…