IN 1969 the Association for Super vision and Curriculum Development held a special conference on the hidden or un studied curriculum of the school. My friend Philip Jackson organized the session with papers by Friedenberg, Dreeben, Jackson, and myself. 1 At the time I claimed Jackson's term, the "hidden curriculum," referred to the moral atmosphere of the school, and that the function of the hi...

The present study was an attempt to investigate the possible role of the hidden curriculum onacademic achievements of high school students and to provide a plausible model to decrease the negative effects of the hidden curriculum. Research method was mixed. The statistical population was all female high school students.The sample comprised 9 high school who were purposeful sampling selected the...

Background: Human beings use different approaches to learning. Thus the aim of this study is to explore the mechanisms of learning through the hidden curriculum in the perspective of baccalaureate undergraduate nursing students. Methods: This qualitative study, involving 24 baccalaureate undergraduate nursing students, was done by purposeful sampling strategies. The data were collected using se...

CONTEXT Major influences on learning about medical professionalism come from the hidden curriculum. These influences can contribute positively or negatively towards the professional enculturation of clinical students. The fact that there is no validated method for identifying the components of the hidden curriculum poses problems for educators considering professionalism. The aim of this study ...

Editor – We read with interest Dr Smith’s recent commentary regarding lecture attendance in the pre-clinical curriculum. We agree that the first 2 years of medical school are formative and influence students’ future professional behaviours. However, we submit that the issue of lecture attendance is attributable to far more than students’ lifestyle preferences and involves the medium of lecture ...

PURPOSE To probe medical students' narrative essays as a rich source of data on the hidden curriculum, a powerful influence shaping the values, roles, and identity of medical trainees. METHOD In 2008, the authors used grounded theory to conduct a thematic analysis of third-year Harvard Medical School students' reflection papers on the hidden curriculum. RESULTS Four overarching concepts wer...