The first thing stopped me is that I feel resonant when I see the author questioned about payoff system created 'award junkies' as I remember clearly when I was young, I sometimes really just focus on how to win the prize, and compliment from teacher, but not to learn things. I totally understand why he ask this question.
The second thing stopped me as I saw the name 'Null Curriculum'. From the further explanation I get the point where the 'null' word is like what school ask for but neglected or absent on curricula. Which is quit interesting because base on my understanding, the word 'null' usually used for 'nothing' or something 'useless'. Well, I guess it is different between my understanding and different between the languages.
I like Eisner's article brings that schools have implicit and 'null' curriculum which school were looking for but not included or shown on the older curricula, and now BC curriculum is more inclusive, becoming more general base on time. I can see the pedagogy idea is updating and keep change in mind that, there are lot of things other than just school subjects that the educators really want, nurturing kids to be engaged and curious about the world, and to create a caring society.
Thanks You. In this context, 'null' means something that is missing, but not really something useless! I guess that both the implicit and null curricula are things that schools are looking for in some sense, but the implicit curriculum is really about what is taught without much consciousness that it IS being taught -- and the null curriculum is what is omitted.
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