Many years ago I heard a great teacher make a distinction I never forgot. Every educational institution, he said, has two kinds of subject matter. There is the formal curriculum. And there is what ...

A recent Bluesky thread about teaching undergraduates the hidden curriculum of college caught my eye. Miriam Posner, an associate professor of information studies at the University of California at ...

NAE Perspectives offer practitioners, scholars, and policy leaders a platform to comment on developments and issues relating to engineering. Idalis Villanueva Alarcón (FOE 2022) is an associate ...

Imagine sitting in an English classroom, flipping through a textbook meant to teach you the world's most widely spoken language. But beneath the grammar exercises and vocabulary lists lies something ...

Presented by Dr. Idalis Villanueva Alarcón, a renowned expert in the field of engineering education, this talk is part of the Centre for Engineering Education Seminar Series.

Graduate school is a great mystery to students, and to some faculty members, says Jessica McCrory Calarco, the author of A Field Guide to Grad School: Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum (Princeton ...

“When you’re a college student, you have to learn to work the system to get help. And trust me, there is a system.” This statement, made by a student to an audience of campus administrators and higher ...

1. Public Education. While I like many standalone charters—mom-and-pop shops—run by the constituents of the school’s “community,” I see no reason why the schools have to go charter to have that ...

Are you “in the know” or “on the out?” Well, many college students don’t even know where they stand thanks to our friend, the hidden curriculum. The hidden curriculum refers to the set of norms and ...