Cultural Themes
Assignment:
Cultural
Themes(50
pts.)
Each student is to select a
cultural theme noted below and lead a class discussion (30 minutes max) that
defines the theme by identifying its various characteristics which have
contributed to the present nature of and practices in American education. The
student should also predict the relative significance that this theme might have
on schooling in the future. Finally, the discussion should also focus on how the
tenets of the cultural theme could be involved in what Gaddy, Hall, and Marzano
call School Wars.
1. Capitalism
2. Democracy
3. Protestantism
4. Cultural Pluralism
5. New Age Movement
6. Humanism
7. Marxism
8. Scientific Reductionism
9. Industrialization
10. Globalism
11. Nationalism