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The Hidden Curriculum of Justice: How the American Criminal Justice System Educates, and Miseducates, Citizens
March 31, 2016
Dr. Benjamin Justice, an associate professor and historian of education at Rutgers University, presented his talk The Hidden Curriculum of Justice: How the American Criminal Justice System Educates, and Miseducates Citizenson Thursday, March 31, at 6 p.m. in Norman Hall’s auditorium.
For an increasing number of Americans, the criminal justice system plays a powerful and pervasive role in shaping notions of civic identity. Officially, this education is supposed to reinforce notions of democracy, equality, fairness and the opportunity for rehabilitation. In reality, however, the criminal justice system offers Americans a hidden curriculum of justice that is quite the opposite — a series of lessons in unlimited state power, racism and economic death.
Dr. Justice examined three aspects of the criminal justice system — jury service, incarceration and policing — and demonstrate the operation of two parallel curricula within them: a symbolic, overt curriculum rooted in positive civic conceptions and democracy, and a hidden curriculum, rooted in empty or negative conceptions of certain citizens and their relationship to the state.
This event was sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations at the Levin College of Law, UF Student Government, the Student Alliance of Graduates in Education, the Education College Council and the Bob Graham Center for Public Service.
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