Dimensions and components of underground curriculum
Subject Areas : Research in Curriculum PlanningMorteza Bazdar Gamchi Gayeh 1 , Kourosh Fathi Vajargah 2
1 - Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Farhangian University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Professor, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Professor, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
Keywords: Dimensions of the Underground Curriculum, research narrative, students, teachers,
Abstract :
The purpose of this is to explain the model and components of the underground curriculum in Iranian schools, and it intends to specify the different forms of activities and behaviors that are carried out in the research of the underground curriculum in schools and classrooms. The statistical population is the secondary schools of the first period of Ardabil city, out of which 4 schools were selected as the target ones, and the research was conducted using them. Observation tools, narrative and informal interviews, collected and analyzed the necessary data from teachers, students, environment. The data were analyzed by thematic analysis method and 3 general themes of communication were obtained, i.e. verbal and expressive signs, mental signs and practical signs as an underground curriculum in Iranian schools. The research studies of this research, teachers and students have collective beliefs that these beliefs in front of the official statements and rules of schools, there are also many communication and speech signs among students and their things that dominate the spirit of the social atmosphere of schools. Jokes, teasing, which is in everyday behavior, and profanity and using vulgar words in common conversations are examples of these signs. The research of this research is practical signs, after the shadow or underground curriculum in Iranian schools. Cheating of learners, fights among students and staging are activities and events so far from the underground curriculum.
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