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Yulong Li – Critical Education, 2022
As early as the 1990s, educationists, and even some governmental policy makers in China, advocated suzhi (quality) educational reform, aiming to develop creative individuals, and to revamp the exam-oriented and authoritarian education system. However, this suzhi educational reform was not entirely successful, with education in China becoming a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Hidden Curriculum, Power Structure
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Hope, Andrew – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2010
The growth of surveillance in UK schools in recent years has resulted in the development of what can be labelled as the surveillance curriculum. Operating through the overt and hidden curricula, contemporary surveillance practices and technologies not only engage students in a discourse of control, but also increasingly socialise them into a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Observation, Internet, Educational Practices
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Stephens, John – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 1994
Argues that children's literature contains strategies to confine texts within a narrow band of sociocultural values. The language of children's fiction offers conventionalized discourse by means of which content is encoded. These texts are symptomatic of how literature is complicit in the ideological construction of Australian childhood. (nine…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Childrens Literature, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
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Mbandaka, Honore Vinck – Paedagogica Historica, 1995
An analysis of 50 textbooks used in the elementary schools of the former Belgian Congo reveals an overt attempt to propagate colonial ideology. Fundamental themes included the legitimacy of the colonization, denigration of the indigenous culture, and establishment of colonial authority. Three books, however, resisted this indoctrination and one…
Descriptors: Colonialism, Cultural Differences, Elementary Education, Ethnocentrism
Power, Sally; Whitty, Geoff – 1997
Many countries have introduced a range of policies that attempt to reformulate the relationships among government, schools, and parents through the application of market forces. This paper looks at the hidden curriculum of marketization and explores the extent to which the recent trend toward quasi-markets in public education systems are…
Descriptors: Corporate Support, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
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Maxwell, James D.; Maxwell, Mary Percival – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 1995
Maintains that although Canada's private schools attempt to reproduce dominant cultural ideology, meritocracy and recruitment have created paradoxical effects. Academic competition results in fewer private school graduates being admitted to top universities. Further studies reveal no correlation between private school and financial success. (MJP)
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Economic Change, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
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Mac An Ghail, Mairtin – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 1996
Criticizes the conservative movement's dismissal of class inequities in the British school system. Maintains that any critical analysis of social democratic alternatives to the current system must address the ways that class identities and social destinies are reproduced through state schooling. Doubts the efficacy of managerialist technically…
Descriptors: Conservatism, Educational Philosophy, Educational Quality, Educational Sociology