Schools and teachers unintentionally communicate identity messages to adolescents through the hidden curriculum¶

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Evidence · 1 study · review r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2019 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Through unintentional educational processes that are part of the hidden curriculum, messages can be implicitly communicated to adolescents about who they are, should, and can be. → Verhoeven 2019

Evidence¶

Verhoeven 2019¶

Verhoeven, M., Poorthuis, A. M. G., & Volman, M. (2019). The Role of School in Adolescents' Identity Development. A Literature Review. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-018-9457-3

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The review's synthesis of 52 articles on unintentional processes, mostly in formal education settings (n = 48), identified selection practices and differentiation, teaching strategies, teacher expectations, and peer norms as processes through which identity messages are implicitly communicated. The review reports these studies were largely qualitative case studies.

"concern educational processes that are part of what could be called the Bhidden curriculum^ (Jackson 1968): through these processes, messages can be implicitly communicated to adolescents about who they are, should, and can be."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Identity — outcome: instruction changes it

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