잠재적 교육과정의 재개념화 필요성 탐색 = A Study on the Necessity of Reconceptualization of Hidden Curriculum

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The concept of hidden curriculum have made a great contribution to the development of curriculum theory and practice since it appeared about 30 years ago. However, some scholars asserted repeatedly that hidden curriculum is a wrong concept because the word of curriculum cannot be employed to describe the outcomes of education. Still others criticized the concept of hidden curriculum by maintaining that hidden curriculum is an irrelevant name because it has been wrongly utilized in order to indicate value-free state of affairs which are to be found as a result of educational activities. In this paper, it is maintained that the concept of hidden curriculum should be understood in the paradigm of curriculum understanding. In the context of curriculum understanding, those distinctions between planning and outcomes, and between value and fact are not regarded as opposites among which we have to choose one side against the other, but as two different aspects of curriculum. Within the paradigm of curriculum understanding, the concept of hidden curriculum is secured as a meaningful concept for educational studies. However, hidden curriculum should be reconceptualized in order to make a further contribution to educational studies. First, as many educational scholars came to employ the concept of hidden curriculum in their writings, its meaning became confused. Second, as educators payed much attention to the hidden curriculum in their planning stage of educational activities, the boundaries between hidden and manifest curriculum became blurred. In the paper, it is proposed that hidden curriculum should be reconceptualized in the direction that the difference between hidden and manifest curriculum should be based on the distinction between total effect of school site and specific effect of subject matter, and between formation of unconsciousness and formation of consciousness. How hidden curriculum is to be reconceptualized utilizing those concepts such as total effect of school site and formation of unconsciousness should be studied further.