Education · Boston College
This course explores global cultures of learning and their relationships to the learning of culture. How pople learn and know in educational institutions is rooted in cultural values: in the way they imagine studying or praciticing, in their different expectations about what success means, in their sense of who should teach and who should learn. But it is equally true that learning extends well beyond the years and settings of formal education. From birth on, humans are learning through experience in the context of families, communities, and a wide range of practices and institutions. We will
