Chapter 2


	Schools as Cultural Institutions Introduction. What Is Culture? Education as Cultural Capital. Cultural Literacy? What Does it Mean to Be Culturally Literate? Can Schooling Be Neutral? The Hidden Curriculum. The Null Curriculum. Religion and the Null Curriculum. Resistance Theory and Learning. Developing a Critical Pedagogy. Chapter 2 looks at schools as cultural institutions. Understanding the meaning of culture is critical in this chapter. Look at the following web sites to further develop yoiur understanding. Defininitions and discussions of culture are found at: What is Culture? http://www.wsu.edu:8001/vcwsu/commons/topics/culture/culture-index.htm l#to p Cutural Studies Central http://www.culturalstudies.net/ Cultural Studies and Critical Theory http://eserver.org/theory/ Cultural Literacy refers specifically to the ideas and work of E. D. Hirsch. The following web sites should be helpful in providing you with additional perspectives to those included in the textbook. Cultural Literacy http://www.ade.org/ade/bulletin/N084/084001.HTM Core Knowledge Foundation http://www.coreknowledge.org/ For background on Critical pedagogy visit the following web sites. Resources on Critical Pedagogy http://www.wvu.edu/~lawfac/jelkins/pedagogy.html Critical Thinking and Critical Pedagogy http://faculty.ed.uiuc.edu/burbules/ncb/papers/critical.html

	NetQuest #3 Learning About Supreme Court Cases The Supreme Court has had a profound effect on shaping the character of American society. Nowhere has this been as true as in the case of its decisions about religion and schools. Go online to the "Oyez, Oyez" web and use its search engine to find cases dealing with education and religion. You can do this by searching under the subject search or by going to a specific case. An example of a specific case to search under would be the 1997 case of Agostini v. Felton (1997). The Oyez Project (Northwestern University) http://oyez.nwu.edu/ You can visit the main Supreme Court web site at: Supreme Court http://www.supremecourtus.gov/