Cultural and Critical Perspectives on Human Development

“What has become increasingly clear in these debates is that education is not just about conventional school matters like curriculum or standards or testing. What we resolve to do in school only makes sense when considered in the broader context of what the society intends to accomplish through its educational investment in the young. How one conceives of education, we have finally come to recognize, is a function of how one conceives of the culture and its aims, professed and otherwise.” (Bruner, 1996, pp. ix-x)