In this article, Kirsten Hextrum considers institutional avenues that limit upward mobility opportunities by revealing a hidden curriculum of athletic recruiting that favors students from privileged backgrounds. The study's data center on forty-seven life history interviews with National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I athletes from an athletically and academically prestigious university. Hextrum's findings reveal three phases of a hidden curriculum—socialization, covert selection, and overt selection—that secure greater access to elite colleges for White middle-class communities via athletic participation. In this case, social reproduction required active effort by both representatives of higher education and representatives of White middle-class communities to protect existing class and race relations.
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Fall 2018
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September 01 2018
The Hidden Curriculum of College Athletic Recruitment
KIRSTEN HEXTRUM
KIRSTEN HEXTRUM
University of Oklahoma
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Harvard Educational Review (2018) 88 (3): 355–377.
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KIRSTEN HEXTRUM; The Hidden Curriculum of College Athletic Recruitment. Harvard Educational Review 1 September 2018; 88 (3): 355–377. doi: https://doi.org/10.17763/1943-5045-88.3.355
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