I would be interested in what Naoki has to say on the subject
of your recent post about transfer versus transmission of cultural
capital (I am not sure you used the word, transmission). Anyhow,
it occurred to me that you were actually mixing two different issues
which confused me at first, and then intrigued me.
In the "schooling as transmitting cultural capital" view,
we are talking about intergenerational "transfer." In the usual
ed psych literature on transfer, we are usually talking about a
person who learns something in one setting (like a classroom or
a hands on session with Dienes blocks) and then uses what is learned
there to deal with some later problem.
These are not generally considered the same problem by psycho-
logists. Should they be?
mike