Hidden curriculum in the university

✍ Scribed by G. Bergenhenegouwen

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 524 KB
• Volume: 16
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0018-1560
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00128420

✦ Synopsis

This article contains the results of two research projects in the faculty of social science of the University of Amsterdam into the hidden curriculum in university.* The results show that students do experience something like a hidden curriculum in university study. The article first goes into the question what the hidden curriculum in university is and what extra things are learnt in addition to the official curriculum. Then a second aspect of these projects is examined: that of study motivation and study attitude. There appears to be a tendency among students to study not only for the sake of a diploma (exchange value), but also to make the study more practicable in their personal lives and find a link with their own everyday experience (practical value). The latter attitude towards study appears to be an important factor to minimize the effect of the hidden curriculum and so to do more justice to the official curriculum.