Teaching Between the Lines: How Youth Development Organizations Reveal the Hidden Curriculum explores educational inequality by interrogating the "hidden curriculum," the collection of norms, behaviors and knowledge that are rewarded in the American educational system.
The book shows how this curriculum is learned (or not), how it can reinforce and create barriers for underrepresented students, and how these dynamics influence students' sense of belonging and achievement. In particular, Teaching Between the Lines details the role of youth development organizations in teaching, translating, and shaping the hidden curriculum to students who might not otherwise learn it, and unpacking the challenging dynamics that come with this work. Teaching Between the Lines published in August 2021 with New Degree Press.
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In Teaching Between the Lines, you’ll hear directly from youth development organization administrators and alumni who can speak to how these programs influenced their trajectories. This book will take you from the classroom of a weekend enrichment program in Chicago to family dinners and college workshops at a community organization in San Diego. Readers will travel from the cut throat climate at elite high schools to the intimate partnerships between new college students and their lifeline peer mentors. Throughout, I will let the expertise and lived experiences of those I spoke with lead my exploration and reflection.
Andrew Maguire is a youth development leader and non-profit strategist who has supported young people around the globe. In 2018, Andrew was selected as a Luce Scholar and helped launch the undergraduate program at Fulbright University Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He’s been fortunate to work with a number of fantastic organizations, including UNICEF USA, World Learning, Doctors Without Borders, UNDP, and the U.S. Department of State.
Andrew wrote his book, Teaching Between the Lines, to learn more about educational access in the U.S., given his professional experience working with youth from other countries. In writing this book, he hopes to continue necessary dialogue around how to bring equity and inclusion to America’s broken education system.
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Testimonials
“Andrew partnered with our team at TVP to design a training about the Hidden Curriculum for our volunteer mentors. Andrew made sure to have an in-depth understanding of our organization's mission, and how our volunteers could benefit from his research and expertise. Andrew then partnered with our team to develop a dynamic, interactive training that received extremely positive feedback from our mentors. We are eager to work with him in the future and will continue to share his book as a valuable resource for our community!”
-Amy McDermott, Co-Founder and CEO of The Valedictorian Project
“My agency was fortunate to have Andrew Maguire provide an overview of the hidden curriculum to members of staff and volunteers working with first generation college students in a pilot mentoring program. Andrew is a highly skilled presenter who conveys complex nuance in a very accessible and engaging way. During a 90-minute workshop, he introduced the most central aspects of this rarely named concept that plays such a huge role in perpetuating inequity on college campuses. Andrew addressed how the pervasive hidden curriculum impacts students in a variety of ways, including the college application process, interpreting peer social codes, dealing with university bureaucracy, and ultimately overall academic success. The workshop gave our mentors an opportunity to learn and start reflecting on how the hidden curriculum affects every step of a student's path to and during college. Empowered by this knowledge, our mentors will be better-equipped to assist their mentees in proactively advocating for themselves as they navigate the college journey.”
-Jenny George, MSW, LICSW, Director of College Mentoring at Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters.
“The sharing changed the way I think about etiquette and ‘best practices’ in college for students. The Hidden Curriculum was in my blind spot, as I usually thought ‘good’ students pick up the norms and rules faster. But that can be an equality problem in its root. Will definitely remind myself of this.”
- Attendee of Hidden Curriculum session at Fulbright University Vietnam