Education is about teaching students how to decide well and how to behave accordingly. Character education improves students’ knowledge, skills and abilities through providing them to make a good choice appropriate for having responsibility (CUBUKCU). However, the question still remains, what do students learn at school? The answer to this question should tell us more about the hidden curriculum. According to Journal of Education and Practice (2015), the concept of a hidden curriculum refers to the unspoken or implicit values, behaviors, procedures and norms that exist in the educational setting. This is a fine way of defining what a hidden curriculum is all about. While such expectations are not explicitly …show more content…
children in farm schools have very different expectations from children in township. Speaking from my own experiences, I went to a rural school in Beaufort-West where I was exposed to Afrikaans more than English. We had little learning materials and we used to speak Afrikaans in the English classroom. So the transition from Afrikaans to English was kind of a hardship for me to handle in my first year of university. My observation at school A is another experience. I observed at Groenberg High in Grabouw. This is a farm school where parents are not able to pay for better facilities and more equipment. So students are struggling for better learning materials …show more content…
They learn that they are expected to confirm to rules and they learn what happens if they don’t conform. As mentioned previously children realize that there are certain expectations. They know if they don’t follow rules there will be consequences like punishment. For example, at school-A (observation) they have a cellphone policy. If a learner is caught with a cellphone the parents will be informed and they will have to pay a certain amount to get the cellphone back. This is part of the school’s rules. There are schools that are more authoritarian than others depending on the types of class the school is (working and middle class schools). Here one can also look at how privileged or unprivileged a school is (influences