In this engaging and accessible volume, Jane Roland Martin
develops a brilliantly innovative approach to education that
illuminates one of the most pressing issues of our day, the
passing down of "cultural liabilities," such as violence in the
home, school, and world at large and hatred of other races,
religions, genders, ethnicities, or sexual orientations. By
encouraging readers to look at education from the standpoint of
culture, new questions emerge: How is a culture's wealth to be
defined? Who is qualified to contribute to it? How can we
preserve a culture's assets for the next generation? Cultural
Miseducation constructs a new framework for viewing education,
school, and curriculum, develops more inclusive, democratic
definitions of culture and citizenship, and expands the concept
of educational agency to include all groups and institutions in
our society.