‘… in general it refers to unofficial norms, behaviours and values that teachers teach and students learn at school, or that are directly/indirectly transferred by the school culture or ethos, and which are not necessarily a product of conscious intention’.
While the ‘formal’ curriculum consists of the courses, lessons, and learning activities that learners participate in, as well as the knowledge and skills educators intentionally teach, ‘the hidden curriculum acknowledges that schooling takes place in a broad social and cultural environment that has an influence on learning’ (Adapted from UNESCO-IBE, Glossary of Curriculum Terminology).