These notes are the fifteenth in a series of fifteen lecture for my class Culture and Communication.

•  Varenne, Hervé "Difficult collective deliberations: anthropological notes towards a theory of education."  Teachers College Record (2007)

1. Education AND Culture
   1. culture as a problem for the "people of the School"
      1. culture of poverty (from Oscar Lewis in the 1960s to Wilson last year)
      2. cultural difference
      3. multiculturalism
   2. culture as constraints produced historically
      1. Culture as disability (McDermott and Varenne 1995)
         1. from Saussure and Benedict, through Foucault, acknowledging the properties of a state to make problems for individuals: "If you are concerned with individuals, turn away from them." (Varenne and McDermott 1998: Conclusion)
         2. culture as "fact" of life
2. Education as Culture
   1. Finding the mechanisms for culture change in the collective deliberations among consociates made necessary by the arbitrariness of all history.
      1. cultural facts are not destiny
      2. they may be things which make other things (Latour), they are also inherently unstable
      3. a preview of my Fall class "Ethnography of Education"