The 'Hidden Pedagogy' and its Implications for Teacher Training
Titel:
The 'Hidden Pedagogy' and its Implications for Teacher Training
Auteur:
Densgombe, Martyn
Verschenen in:
British journal of sociology of education
Paginering:
Jaargang 3 (1982) nr. 3 pagina's 249-265
Jaar:
1982
Inhoud:
Despite the diversity of training they receive and the diversity of subjects and schools in which they work, teachers tend to share a vision of their work in which 'classroom control' and 'classroom privacy' figure prominently. This common element in their understanding of the work can be explained by the fact that they share one overriding influence on their attitudes and approaches to the job — assroom experience. Because this experience itself is shaped by some characteristic features of the material and social organisation of classrooms, teachers tend to share certain problems, dilemmas, frustrations and opportunities that come as normal parts of classroom experience and which present the teachers with some practical imperatives they cannot afford to ignore. Classroom experience, for this reason, fosters a set of pragmatic beliefs about the job which, by way of contrast with formal educational theory, can be regarded as a 'hidden pedagogy'. This generally involves a belief in the need to establish classroom control and to maintain the privacy of the situation as absoute prerequisites for successful teaching — a belief that gets carried through from generation to generation of teachers and which remains remarkably unchanged despite superficial alterations to pedagogy, curriculum and school organisation because the basic structural features of classroom experience have remained unaltered. Any attempt to innovate and alter the work of teachers needs to take into account this hidden dimension of the job and consider carefully the repercussions of pedagogic proposals for the deep-rooted vision of competent teaching it contains.
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