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ERIC Number: ED662476
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Sep-18
Pages: 15
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In the Shadow of Traditional Education: A "Currere" of School Entitlement and Student Erasure
Richard D. Sawyer
Advances in Research on Teaching
In this study, I use "currere" to examine excessive entitlement in my own high school education. By "excessive entitlement," I emphasize teachers' actions and systemic conditions related to an excessive educational mindset justifying (and manifesting) self-infallibility. Teachers displaying excessive entitlement might take for granted, for example, the correctness of their actions, closing self-awareness, and more equitable relations with others (especially students). On a structural level, it includes, for example, societal norms, school policies, educational traditions, and often laws. Specifically, I present findings examining three levels of curriculum -- the formal or explicit, the implicit or hidden, and the null or present/absent. I offer my own story as a case study of how schools and teachers may silence and erase student identity and culture as well as how more inclusive and dialogic teaching approaches (and methods of inquiry) can counteract and offer alternatives to such oppressive forces. My framework includes professional ethics, moral ethics, and social justice ethics. Looking back at my history as a gay high school student, I discovered that my school's explicit curriculum provided teachers with a safe haven for bigotry and hostility toward LGBTQ students (as well as female students and students of color), and its hidden curriculum projected messages that privileged such a curriculum (and denigrated epistemologies more on the margin). It was only in the null curriculum that I began to experience a sense of liberation and inclusion and an awareness of the multiplicity of epistemology and ontology. [For the complete volume, "After Excessive Teacher and Faculty Entitlement: Expanding the Space for Healing and Human Flourishing through Ideological Becoming. Advances in Research on Teaching. Volume 47," see ED662291.]
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Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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