HIDDEN VS

CORE
CURRICULUM
 HIDDEN CURRICULUM

• Hidden curriculum refers to the unwritten, unofficial, and

often unintended lessons, values, and perspectives that
students learn in school.
• While the “formal” curriculum consists of the courses,
lessons, and learning activities students participate in, as well
as the knowledge and skills educators intentionally teach to
students, the hidden curriculum consists of the unspoken or
implicit academic, social, and cultural messages that are
communicated to students while they are in school.
• These include behavior, attitude, values and perspectives that
students learn, while they are in school.
• The hidden curriculum is described as “hidden” because it is
usually unacknowledged or unexamined by students,
educators, and the wider community.
• Olivia: The hidden curriculum consists of the kinds of
learning children acquire from the nature and organization of
the classroom and school as well as the attitudes and actions
of their children.
• So, hidden curriculum is a broad category that includes all
of the unrecognized and sometimes unintended
knowledge, values and beliefs that are part of the learning
process in schools and classrooms.
 KEY FEATURES
With a non-academic focus
Consciously or
on teaching values and
unconsciously hidden at
skills apart from official
least for a group of subject
curriculum

Hidden
Curriculum
With a potential to lead to
positive and negative Not written and not
influences on the explicitly acknowledged
individuals
ROLE

• To inculcate society’s core values

• Adaptation of real life situations
• Cultural transmission
• Gender stereotype
• Character formation
• Development of language
CORE CURRICULUM
• This type of curriculum includes compulsory and optional courses
of study.
• The compulsory courses have to be studied by every student.
• It is related to student and social needs.
• It helps in preparing good citizens.
• The optimal courses are offered by students according to his need
and interest.
• Thus it is also known as learner centered curriculum.
• A.A.Douglass: Core curriculum is a projection of all basic, general
training of the elementary school.
 NEED

• To provide students a common body of experience

organized around personal and social problems
• To give learners successful experiences in solving the
problems which are real to them, thus preparing them
to solve future problems.
• To give learners, such experiences which will lead
them to become better citizen in a democracy.
• To make learners social competent.
 ROLE
• It builds a solid academic foundation with personal flexibility.
• Value.
• Quality
• ESSENTIAL SKILLS
 Communication Skill
 Reasoning Skills.
 Information Literacy

• DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES
 Scientific Literacy
 Humanities and Creative Arts

• GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITY
 Global Literacy
 Ethics and Civic Engagement.