Philosophical and Psychological Foundations of Education

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CULTURE

One can't simply wave a curricular wand and reverse acculturation. ~ Mark Edmundson, "On the Uses of a Liberal Education"

Every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first on the social level, and later, on the individual level. ~ Lev Vygotsky, Mind in Society

In the study of cultures or civilizations, an understanding of one's own situation and one's own past is a precondition for understanding another's. ~ Theodore de Bary, "Asia in the Core Curriculum"

One's literal identity—the product of race, class, gender, and socialization—is not the sole, and very often not the central, ground for literary education. ~ Mark Edmundson, Why Read?, p. 126

Not to come to terms with one's past is to remain hostage to it, and thus not to become fully master of oneself. In such a condition, being unable to take responsibility for one's own past, one is in a poor position to become truly responsive to others. ~ Theodore de Bary, "Asia in the Core Curriculum"

Learning and thinking are always situated in a cultural setting and always dependent upon the utilization of cultural resources. ~ Jerome Bruner, The Culture of Education, p. 4

For the meaning making of the culturalist, unlike the information processing of the computationalist, is in principle interpretive, fraught with ambiguity, sensitive to the occasion, and often after the fact. ~ Jerome Bruner, The Culture of Education, p. 6

Life in culture is, then, an interplay between the versions of the world that people form under its institutional sway and the versions of it that are products of their individual histories. ~ Jerome Bruner, The Culture of Education, p. 14

It is principally through interacting with others that children find out what the culture is about and how it conceives of the world. ~ Jerome Bruner, The Culture of Education, p. 20

Education is never neutral, never without social and economic consequences. ~ Jerome Bruner, The Culture of Education, p. 25

Education does not stand alone, and it cannot be designed as if it did. It exists in a culture. ~ Jerome Bruner, The Culture of Education, p. 28

A system of education must help those growing up in a culture find an identity within that culture. ~ Jerome Bruner, The Culture of Education, p. 42

In the end, while mind creates culture, culture creates mind. ~ Jerome Bruner, The Culture of Education, p. 166

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