ABSTRACT
The locally relevant issues were the states and the relative positions of the participants within the states. When looking at action in educational settings where students and also teachers, administrators, and schools are failing, the issue becomes a pressing one. A three-year-old entering a preschool for the first time and wandering off into spaces he identifies as something he knows from home is as much "in school" as a senior fourteen years later. They are both in school, in School, whether or not their parents' culture prepares them for what they find there. In a cultural process that hides as much about the people as it reveals, one loses the ability to focus on society for analysis to the very extent one settles within the boundaries it provides. The only solution to the problem is to realize concretely that the labels, signs, symbols, and propositions that litter the landscape of any interaction are material for local construction.
