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The Hidden Curriculum in greater schooling is a bold examine the best way schools and universities produce race, category, and gender hierarchies and reproduce conservative ideology. those unique and provocative essays make clear all that continues to be hidden in better schooling.

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Getting lost was initially a source of embarrassment and anxiety for the first-year students; later, after they could negotiate the halls easily, the confusion of neophytes was a source of amusement for them. One student joked to me when I asked him for directions that “Boalt has been organized so as to cause the maximum possible confusion for [first-year students]” (Field note, August 20, 1997). Besides confusing the novice, the hallways of Boalt serve to Schooled by the Classroom • 47 impress.

Asking them to justify and almost testing them in ways they would never test a white professor. 6 One white male student who was supported by various individuals in her institution filed a complaint, the handling of which demonstrates how sexism and racism disempower feminist and minority faculty: I was asked to teach this course on cross-culture education where I incorporated into the course both stuff on racial and ethnic minorities as well as gender issues. And halfway through the course a student was really mad and he complained that I was a biased teacher.

For some scholar/educators in this study, not only has higher education become a less independent subsector of the economy, but curricula—both formal and informal—are overdetermined by the logic of exchange. In a higher education manifestation of Bowles and Gintis’s (1976) “correspondence thesis,” one of the main purposes that hidden curricula serve in the university is to prepare people for the corporate world (Chubb and Moe 1990; Cohen 1993; Etzkowitz, Webster, and Healey 1998; Lucas 1994; Nelson 1997; Parsons and Platt 1973; Slaughter and Leslie 1997; Spring 1972; Shor 1980; McLaren 2000).

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