About Philip W. Jackson
Lived 1928 – 2015 (aged 86–87). Philip W. Jackson was an American pedagogue, university teacher and educator.
Philip Wesley Jackson (December 2, 1928, in Vineland – July 21, 2015, in Chicago) was an American pedagogue who was professor emeritus at the University of Chicago. During his career, he also served as president of the American Educational Research Association and of the John Dewey Society. He coined the phrase "hidden curriculum" in his 1968 book entitled Life in Classrooms, in a section about the need for students to master the institutional expectations of school.
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Who was Philip W. Jackson?
American pedagogue
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Philip W. Jackson was born in 1928.
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Philip W. Jackson died on 21 July 2015.
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Philip W. Jackson was a pedagogue, university teacher and educator.
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Philip W. Jackson was American.
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