Reflection on Eisner, Three curricula all schools teach

By reading through the article, I realized that I did not really know much about the differences between explicit and implicit curriculum before.  The author has truly explained the difference between explicit and implicit curriculum what is formally intended to be taught by a class versus what happens to be taught by an environment. The explicit curriculum refers to intentional instructive techniques. In this curriculum the classes are affected by the schools and are typically include: Math, Science, English… there are some standards, some set goals, text books, and some rules that teachers use to create the classroom.   Whereas in the implicit one, teachers can deliberately change the environment of their classrooms as an intentional learning experience.

What stopped me when I was reading about the two curricula was the fact that there is a reward system in the implicit curriculum set up which pushes the students to complete the activities for prizes, regardless the like or the dislike of the activity. I thought about these children as future adults, what does this fact do to them once they are going toward adolescence? Are they going to be completing their tasks only because of receiving a prize afterwards?  These questions made me think about some negative results of having an implicit curriculum as an oppose to the other one. In my opining, in this curriculum, students will become too compliant, very much dependence on rewards, and eventually might lose their self- confidence when not being able to complete the activity.  

On the other hand, what stopped me again, and made me rethink about what I read in the article was, there are also some positive results in this curriculum, which can not be denied. Since the curriculum is made by teachers, the classrooms have their own set ups, and there are some begin and end for the class time. Therefore, the students will learn the punctuality and being on time. Also, the tasks, activities and lessons are taken as serious matters and there are in fact long term goals set in this curriculum for the students to reach on time. So, I believe that there are in fact some good points and bad points in having this curriculum in school which give us some considerations.

As Eisner mentions in his article, null curriculum is very closely related to explicit and implicit curricula, and it refers specifically to any subjects that are not covered within the context of a class , so I would think that the new BC Curricula is  a mixture  of both the  curricula which would be more like the Null one. That is what I thought of the new BC one as I read through the book.