Jean Anyon Hidden Curriculum

Haoran Wang
Professor King
English 1A
8 April 2015
Prompt 1 The “hidden curriculum” that Jean Anyon investigates is that “school works try to make children remain their social class with their parents and thus perpetuates the maintenance of the status quo and the ongoing gap between rich and poor.” Basically, the “hidden curriculum” is set up for children to stay within their parents’ social class. Jean Anyon discovered that the working class children are being educated for mechanical and low wage-labor. The middle-class children are being educated for white-collar office jobs which don’t need to be so talented, but basic skills of following directions. The professional children are being prepared to follow in the footsteps of their successful parents and become specific authority in different and they are educated with highly developed linguistic, artistic and scientific expression skills. And finally, the executive children are developing the skills necessary for the “ownership and control of the physical capital and the means of production in society,” which means that the children from the executive parents are going to be educated into elites and they
Beyond all doubt, this curriculum is served for wealthy families. This system ensures that their children ae going to be successful like themselves, maybe better than them. However, they are no need to worry about the children from other classes will take over their positions because they are failed from the very beginning. “This system also can perpetuates the maintenance of the status quo and the ongoing gap between rich and poor.” The system works on how to remain our social class, which is very unfair and full of social inequality. Once this curriculum is hidden in our society, the uptrend channel is close, it is really hard to jump between lower level to higher level while our society is controlled by executive elites from generation to