The course is organized in three main parts.

1. The first two lectures address the question: What are we to be concerned with?
   1. Introduction: when is education?
   2. Beyond definitions
2. The next three sections focus on the main issue: how to approach ignorance (not knowledge), its organization, and its productivity within human groups
   1. Contrasting ignorance: disabling
   2. Contrasting ignorance: enabling
   3. Communities of educational practice
3. The ten main sections focus on a series of cases and settings that are always involved in educating
   1. families and local groups ("communities")
      1. Language education and very small children
      2. Communal education of older children
   2. schools and classrooms
   1. the moment-to-moment organization of institutionalized education in the Euro-American modes
   2. other possibilities
   3. high schools
   3. colleges
   4. and everything else
      1. apprenticeships
      2. medical institutions
      3. institutions of "international development"

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