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How Culture Misdirects Multiculturalism
Author(s) -
WAX MURRAY L.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1525/aeq.1993.24.2.05x1116x
Subject(s) - multiculturalism , humanity , rhetorical question , sociology , politics , term (time) , epistemology , function (biology) , social science , political science , linguistics , law , biology , philosophy , pedagogy , physics , quantum mechanics , evolutionary biology
In the ongoing debates over whether, or what sort of , multiculturalism should be curricularly provided, the origin, evolution, and rhetorical function of the basic term culture has been unwisely neglected. Having been accepted as a key term of anthropological discourse, the term conveys sufficient authority to misdirect political‐educational energies. Viewing humanity historically, it is sounder to think in terms of an ecumene, and educationally, to return to the notion of culturing.