Philip W. Jackson
1928 – 2015 American educational psychologist
The scholar who coined the hidden curriculum in Life in Classrooms (1968).
- Affiliations
- University of Chicago; coined the term hidden curriculum.
Philip W. Jackson was an American educational psychologist at the University of Chicago whose 1968 book Life in Classrooms introduced the term hidden curriculum, the idea that schools teach conformity, patience, and obedience through their daily routines as much as through their lessons. The concept became central to the sociology of education.
Works in the library
- 1968 A Life in Classrooms
- 1968 Life in Classrooms
In the timeline
- 1968 Jackson coins the hidden curriculum author