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Societies and Education

Societies evolve through the process of education. As one of the principal agents of societal change, education mirrors the dynamics of a society at any given time. When a society is multi-cultural, such as ours, educational institutions will be one of the places in which cultural phenomena and cultural trends manifest themselves.

All human institutions are created by the culture in which they exist; therefore, all institutions are social institutions, including schools. Academic institutions are established by people in order to carry out their ideas and purposes--the ideas and purposes that are considered appropriate by the cultural environment. Those attending schools learn the values and the methods of the prevailing social order. Oftentimes, what is learned about society's structure and its methods has much more long-term influence on the individual attending school than the actual academic lesson, since assimilating the society's structures, values and methods is the lesson of life.

It has been said that the teacher stands "on the porch of the school." Given this position, educators look out at the culture, its trends and phenomena, either with understanding or misunderstanding. And this has implications for instruction in the schools.

The purpose of this report is to examine the central issues presented in five different pieces of literature which consider various aspects of cultural patterning, and to discuss in broad terms the meaning and implication of these themes for instruction in the school.

In his article, "The Social Creation of School Dropouts: Accomplishing the Reproduction of an Underclass," Papagiannis (1983, 363-392) states that the act of dropping out of school is a reflection of the class-consciousness that is inherent to our society.

At one time or another, we have all been led to believe the myth that America is a classless society. We are a supposedly democratic society. "Any ma...

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