My tendency, as you have seen, Jay, is to seek the source of emergence of
schooling in the more enclusive term of enculturation and then seek the
conditions of division of labor and agglomeration of people that make new
modes of communication/coordination increasingly important.
Good fodder for your search is work on the Perry-Lord thesis to be found
in the work of Havelock (who inspired some overgeneralizations about
alphabets and literacy, but was a fine classical scholar. If you hanve
never read Bruno Snell on the Discovery of the Mind you have fun waiting
for you.
A question from my perspective (and a theme of the Oxford symposium) was
the FUTURE of education. I think it would be really intresting to think about
what a spiral of development that reintegrated schooling with enculturation
would look like. I take this to be impulse behind glorifcations of
apprenticeship and dreams of de-schooling. I symmpathize with the impulse
but am unconvinced by exisiting demos.
mike
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