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Hidden Curriculum and Emotions: Do Active or Passive Perceptions of the Hidden Curriculum Affect Students' Emotions

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Conference

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Baltimore , Maryland

Publication Date

June 25, 2023

Start Date

June 25, 2023

End Date

June 28, 2023

Conference Session

Student Mental Health and Communities of Care

Tagged Division

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

Tagged Topic

Diversity

Page Count

15

DOI

10.18260/1-2--43342

Permanent URL

https://peer.asee.org/43342

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455

Paper Authors

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R. Jamaal Downey University of Florida

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Dr. Downey has been a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Engineering Education at the University of Florida since 2021. His current research is focused on determining how engineering students respond to hidden curriculum as well as how Latinx contingent faculty experience workplace inequities in engineering. He received his Ph.D. in Language, Literacy, and Culture in Education from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Dr. Downey focuses on critical qualitative inquiry with a discerning eye toward humanizing and culturally sustaining pedagogies.

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Idalis Villanueva Alarcón University of Florida Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0002-8767-2576

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Dr. Villanueva Alarcon is an Associate Professor in the Engineering Education Department at the University of Florida. Her multiple roles as an engineer, engineering educator, engineering educational researcher, and professional development mentor for underrepres

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Abstract

The presence of the hidden curriculum (HC) in our educational institutions is unquestioned. The hidden curriculum can be perceived as both helpful or hurtful depending on the messages being transmitted, the identities of the individual and/or institutions that give the HC, as well as the identities of the individuals that receive the HC. After implementing a large survey (n984) from a validated instrument (UPHEME), one preliminary finding was the identification of the HC as either active (a product of an individual espousing their personal belief and/or biases) or passive (simply the culture and byproduct of institutional schooling). From this data, a previous study found that, while the giver of the HC can be identified as either active or passive, the receiver can also interpret the HC as either positive or negative. The previous study found that a majority of white participants identified the HC as passive (74%) while 40% people of color identified the HC as active. What was not investigated at that time was the emotional state of the participants when identifying HC as active, negative, passive, or active.

This proposed paper focuses on the emotional state of the individuals that identified the HC as active to find patterns and themes. With these patterns and themes, the authors seek to better understand how the HC might be utilized to elicit more positive emotions and mitigate the negative emotions.

Downey, R. J., & Villanueva Alarcón, I. (2023, June), Hidden Curriculum and Emotions: Do Active or Passive Perceptions of the Hidden Curriculum Affect Students' Emotions Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--43342

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