I shared this with one of my classes this morning. We spent some time reflecting on Kony2012. We had a wonderful and emotionally engaging conversation about it.
But in order to set up the reflection, we used some curriculum theory to frame our reflection. There are many ways to frame a reflection, but since I’m an educator, I use the educational tools that I’m familiar with to frame the conversation.
Curriculum theory takes a broad perspective and there are many facets to it. We just used 4 pieces of it to frame our conversation. We took a look at the Explicit Curriculum, Implicit Curriculum, Hidden Curriculum, and Null Curriculum.
Explicit C – what they actually say.
Implicit C – what they say that is not expressed
Hidden C – what they don’t say but is still expressed; ergo hidden
Null C – what they don’t say, but I think unintentionally communicate.
You can go wikipedia the theory to get a much deeper treatment of these ideas. You can even criticize the way that expressed it here and the class – that’ll be fine. I just took 2 minutes to set up the framework, but whether these definitions were 100% consistent with Curriculum Theory, it still framed our reflection.
You could use this about any movie, school, person, and/or brand. Take what they say and what they don’t say, what they don’t mean to say, and what they’re just not saying in what they say – and it’ll provide a great framework for any kind of reflection you might need to do.
What do you think? How do you frame your reflection?
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