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According to conflict theorists, schools impart a hidden curriculum that can hamper learning and stifle creativity. Is there a hidden curriculum in higher education as well? Eric Margolis, a sociologist and professor at Arizona State University, proposes that there is. Visit his website on the Hidden Curriculum in Higher Education at ether.asu.edu/peekaboo/.

Click on the link to 35mm Slide Archive along the right-hand side of the page. View the images there, and answer the following questions:
  1. Are these images familiar? Do the events in them occur on your campus as well?
  2. In what ways do you see a hidden curriculum demonstrated through these photographs?
  3. What would you conclude about how the hidden curriculum is "taught" in higher education?
  4. Why is it that Margolis pays attention to the spatial layout (internal and external) of American universities?
  5. You are presented with visual evidence of the existence of a hidden curriculum in higher education. In your view, what is the best means of demonstrating that a hidden curriculum exists—through images or through some other kind of evidence?





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