Mead argued education functions as a mechanism of social and cultural change, not only cultural transmission¶
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q1 i? Mead raised the issue of education as a mechanism of change, particularly social change, emphasizing both cultural transmission and cultural transformation. → Monroe 1992
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Monroe 1992¶
Monroe, Suzanne S. (1992). Margaret Mead: Anthropological Perspective on Educational Change. ERIC Document ED 356 168. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED356168
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The report's interpretive summary of Mead's 1943 article "Our Educational Emphases in Primitive Perspective," describing her position that education operates as a tool of "cultural transformation" as well as transmission. This is the report's reading of Mead's argument, not an empirical test.
"In this article, Mead raises the issue of education as a mechanism of change, particularly social change.She focuses on the elements of cultural transmission as well as cultural transformation."
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Related Claims¶
- Mead holds that the process of acquiring changes the thing acquired, making change of subject matter the rule — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
- Mead observed that rapid change makes yesterday's knowledge useless, requiring education to teach coping with change rather than fixed content — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
- Mead argued that treating the mother tongue as inferior impedes movement between home and school language structures — related
- In Mead's lectures, meanings grow out of social intercourse and the child constructs meanings only in social process — related
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Mead argued education functions as a mechanism of social and cultural change, not only cultural transmission |
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Mead argued education functions as a mechanism of social and cultural change, not only cultural transmission |
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