Pete Farruggio
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>>the Ypsilanti program (Weikert)in Michigan was the last of the
>interventions of that 60's genre that applied the approach even before
>Delpitt, under a cultural deficit mode perhaps. It helped but did not even
>out the distributions.
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>>I have also heard that Muslim African American schools apply it too with
>good results but have not yet seen any data..
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>With regard to the hidden curriculum in Jay's last note, I could not help
>but remember about the hidden curric. in graduate school when dealing with
>anti-poverty early age interventions. We were taught, in what seemed then a
>most liberal and benevolent discourse, that teaching middle class
>interaction patterns and values early on to families (so disadvantaged),
>was what was needed to help "them" or more specifically, their children,
>thrive in school. Fixing the culture would establish compatibility with
>schools as they have been organized, and even out the cultural
>distributions in school achievement.
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>The Coleman report lent support since inequality was not really associated
>with school variables. The curriculum went from fixing them to fixing the
>schools and teachers later to the present multiculturalism route. None of
>these worked except for those afore mentioned. Yet the hidden curriculum,
>particularly in psychology, remains, churning out well intentioned experts
>just like teacher education programs turn out more culturally sensitive
>teachers...etc
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>Unfortunately, the misconception or illusion stemming from these not so
>well hidden curricula is that we have actually diagnosed the problem
>correctly, and that we know how to reduce inequality. Geez, the cures
>proposed by "our" social science appear to ascerbate the prob.
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>If we "know", and our practices (or applications)follow from this knowledge
>and "they" are still caught in the cycle, and there are more children
>destined to poverty than ever, where does this leave "them"?
>(if we keep ruling out it is this or that). Hidden indeed. pedro
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> At 04:17 PM 4/4/98 -0800, you wrote:
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>>>Dear Xmca-ers,
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>>> Are there any examples of curricula which adopt Lisa Delpit's
>>>view that kids should be taught the hidden curriculum of the school
>>>(or which adopt other forms of explicit instruction about dominant
>>>forms of instructional culture?). I assume that Goldenberg and Gallimore's
>>>work on instructional discourse falls into the latter category, but
>>>cannot find a handy article/ref and my assumption could be wrong. It
>>>sure wouldnt be the first time!
>>>mike
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