cultures in/of classrooms

Mike Cole (mcole who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu)
Fri, 22 Dec 1995 12:50:33 -0800 (PST)

Dear Xmca-i-fiers,

By way of meaning being a process (some of whose reifications give all
the appearnaces of just being there to be manipulated), I have been
wanting to ask for some time about the notion of "the culture of
the classroom." I was afraid to break into the discussion to ask,
but the recent postings on social class, ethnicity, and classrooms
seems to be right in that domain.

So, is it useful to think of a "cutllture of the (a) classrom"? What
are the classic writings on this topic? How do I find out the
major current views?

We will be discussin this topic next quarter at LCHC. I will be glad
to provide a summary to references we put together as feedback.
mike