Cultural Pedagogy

Abstract

Introduction:  Education is, of course, a lifelong experience.  As we grow and have new experiences or, if you will, as we change and become, in a sense, new, and as our environments change, we are constantly placed in sense-making situations.  The reconstruction of experience that is education is, of necessity, and on-going process.  Having said that, however, one is reminded that public schooling in this country and in most others is aimed at a select portion of the population, ie., children.  Within that select portion of the population, there is growing reason to believe that a two-tiered system of schooling is not only developing but is becoming institutionalized.  One system, it might be said, attempts to educate.  The other system, if it does anything at all, is content to train children to take their places within a corporate system.  Those places turn out to be the lowest range of that system.  In this paper, we will look at the education of the immature, dealing mainly with conditions which though not sufficient for the educative process may, indeed, be necessary.