Culture, hidden curriculum and political economy
Subtitle: exploring a college general arts program.
Published: 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: Community colleges -- Curricula.; Community college students -- Social conditions.; Postsecondary education -- Political aspects.
Description: This thesis explores the hidden curriculum of a community college general arts program. The literature review component of this research establishes a conceptual framework rooted in Marxian Conflict oriented sociological analysis. I review a number US based ethnographies of community colleges to establish a theoretical framework to be employed throughout the thesis. The qualitative findings of the ethnographies are coupled with US data. This US data is compared with recent Ontario statistics to establish a background for my interview research results.I conducted a series of interviews with a number of faculty and students from a general arts program in Ontario. The results of these interviews find a number of distinct similarities with the US ethnographies. There is evidence to suggest a correspondence between the curriculum of the program, and the social relations of the lower sectors of the workplace.
Notes: Adviser:  P. Sawchuk.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2004.

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Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 42-06, page: 1937.

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