ABSTRACT

The Hidden Curriculum in Higher Education is a daring look at the way colleges and universities produce race, class, and gender hierarchies and reproduce conservative ideology. These original and provocative essays shed light on all that remains hidden in higher education.

chapter 1|20 pages

Peekaboo

Hiding and Outing the Curriculum

chapter 2|22 pages

Hiding in Plain Sight

chapter 3|18 pages

Schooled by the Classroom

The (Re)production of Social Stratification in Professional School Settings

chapter 5|18 pages

“In the Image and Likeness . . .”

How Mentoring Functions in the Hidden Curriculum

chapter 6|18 pages

Training Capitalism’s Foot Soldiers The Hidden Curriculum of Undergraduate

The Hidden Curriculum of Undergraduate Business Education

chapter 7|20 pages

Downward Mobility 101

Learning to Be “Flexible” in an Age of Uncertainty

chapter 8|20 pages

“Powder Puff Brigades”

Professional Caring versus Industry Research in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Curriculum

chapter 9|20 pages

“Plotting Something Dastardly”

Hiding a Gender Curriculum in Engineering

chapter 10|18 pages

Preparing to Be Privatized

The Hidden Curriculum of a Community College ESL Writing Class

chapter 11|20 pages

Radicalism in Higher Education

How Chicano Studies Joined the Curriculum