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This paper applies research from Cultural Studies and cognitive science to an analysi... more This paper applies research from Cultural Studies and cognitive science to an analysis of the cultural aspects of schooling. Schools are argued to be intensely rich sites of cultural reproduction and resistance. Educational research has largely missed the significance of culture in the classroom and has often applied oppressive understandings to cultural minorities. Theories of school achievement are discussed as well as the historical development of the dominant cultural features of school. Using the history of American Indians as an example, this paper concludes that cultural minority students have important cognitive cultural practices which, rather than being seen as subtractive, can be employed to improve education for those students and for schools in general. The cognitive model of school needs to become a culturally inclusive and flexible one where schools learn from American Indian and other cultural minority students. Such a project is in keeping with American cultural values of democracy, equality, justice and pluralism.
This paper applies research from Cultural Studies and cognitive science to an analysi... more This paper applies research from Cultural Studies and cognitive science to an analysis of the cultural aspects of schooling. Schools are argued to be intensely rich sites of cultural reproduction and resistance. Educational research has largely missed the significance of culture in the classroom and has often applied oppressive understandings to cultural minorities. Theories of school achievement are discussed as well as the historical development of the dominant cultural features of school. Using the history of American Indians as an example, this paper concludes that cultural minority students have important cognitive cultural practices which, rather than being seen as subtractive, can be employed to improve education for those students and for schools in general. The cognitive model of school needs to become a culturally inclusive and flexible one where schools learn from American Indian and other cultural minority students. Such a project is in keeping with American cultural values of democracy, equality, justice and pluralism.