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Hidden Curricula

Conference presentations and seminar materials exploring the hidden curriculum in higher education — the unwritten rules, unstated expectations, and invisible structures that shape academic life.

Branding the New American University 01

Branding the New American University

This presentation examines the visual images used to “sell” Arizona State University (ASU). Many state universities are increasingly in competition with private colleges and universities. In this competition they have adopted many visual advertising techniques…

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Ceremony and Ritual in School 02

Ceremony and Ritual in School

Much of the discourse on schooling is framed as “education” and the emphasis is on mind, learning, and assessing curricula content. represent mental activity but are excellent in representing the arrangement of bodies in architectural…

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Visual Histories of American Schools, short version 03

Visual Histories of American Schools, short version

This project began as a search for photographs to be used as illustrations for a series of lectures on the history of American education. At first the enormous numbers of photographs of schools, students, and…

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"Diversity" The Hidden Curriculum in Higher Education by Mary Romero and Eric Margolis 04

"Diversity" The Hidden Curriculum in Higher Education by Mary Romero and Eric Margolis

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Looking at Discipline, Looking at Labor: Photographs of Native American Indians in School By Eric Margolis And Jeremy Rowe 05

Looking at Discipline, Looking at Labor: Photographs of Native American Indians in School By Eric Margolis And Jeremy Rowe

Looking at Discipline, Looking at Labor: Photographs of Native American Indians in School By Eric Margolis And Jeremy RoweThe origin of this project was hundreds of photographs from the Indian Boarding schools. The photos raise…

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Liberal Documentary Goes to School 06

Liberal Documentary Goes to School

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Looking at Pictures Looking at School 07

Looking at Pictures Looking at School

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In the Image and Likeness 08

In the Image and Likeness

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Methods Using Historical Pix 09

Methods Using Historical Pix

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Institutional Betrayals in the Corporation of the University 10

Institutional Betrayals in the Corporation of the University

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Reform School 11

Reform School

This presentation examines historic and current drawings photographs of reform schools. “Reform schools” were actually created as instruments for the socialization of children before the development of public schools.

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Schooling the Body 12

Schooling the Body

This presentation examines historic and current photographs to reveal the practices of schooling the body. Photography is particularly good at revealing visible things that we do not talk about. Thus, where those writing about education…

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Sociologies of the Image: Methodologies for Using Historical Pictures 13

Sociologies of the Image: Methodologies for Using Historical Pictures

We are quickly approaching the situation where most of the historic photographs hitherto hidden away in museums, libraries, and archives will be digitized and available in searchable data bases on the Internet. These images and…

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Through A Lens Darkly 14

Through A Lens Darkly

Urban Schools and the Photographic Imagination It is impossible in this short essay either to do justice to the many ways that photographs can be studied or the controversies over photographic meaning. Nor is it…

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UNIVERSITIES CHANGING 2017: Research and Reflection 15

UNIVERSITIES CHANGING 2017: Research and Reflection

This talk will show and discuss four paradigms that have organized the university’s mission over the centuries. These paradigms, actually long eras, have structured administration, faculty, and student and student behavior. I’ll briefly touch on…

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