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Chapter 3 of Reading Culture encourages a close examination of the social function of education and of everyday practices in education. The book provides several readings offering various perspectives on different aspects of schooling. It also offers instruction for several longer writing projects that help you delve more deeply into your own schooling culture. The "Checking Out the Web" section in the textbook suggests, first, that you examine the Web sites of a number of colleges. The second Web inquiry in the textbook concerns the debate about school vouchers, and the third invites you to investigate Ebonics. This Companion Website contains activities to extend the focus of the book chapter. The first activity here invites you to explore the "hidden" curriculum discussed in the text, by examining the questions of alternative forums for education, as well as how much the Internet changes what students and teachers do that may change the nature of "schooling." The second takes up the issue of how directly the Internet may represent a challenge to some of the core values of the "formal" curriculum by inviting you to investigate sites involved with the culture of cheating. The third activity leads to some further investigations of challenges to the "formal" curriculum, through research into Ebonics and the English-Only movement. The "Visual Culture" section offers links to historical images of schooling and current images of one-room schoolhouses. Finally, the "Mining the Archives" section contains links providing access to textbooks from the mid-1800s to give you a historical perspective on the "formal" curriculum.
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