ABSTRACT
Social scientists are forever creating new definitions for that elusive word culture, but the one that follows is sufficiently broad for use in this chapter’s discussion of early education. Culture: The knowledge, art, morals, laws, customs, values, attitudes, belief systems, behavioral expectations, and norms that give a society and the individuals in it their identity. Although we have not yet addressed the issue of culture directly in this book’s first chapters, it has been an important presence nonetheless.
