ABSTRACT
Given that it is clearly the case, as Durkheim claimed, that education is a process of cultural transmission, there is surprisingly little in the literature concerning the precise role of culture in any particular educational package. Questions concerning this role have recently surfaced in discussions about multiculturalism. However, given that the general questions relating any culture to any education system have not, as yet, been fully addressed, the inconclusive nature of these discussions is to be expected. The concept of ‘culture’ has at least three separate meanings:
1 All the beliefs and practices of a given society. 2 The intellectual and artistic beliefs and practices of a given society. 3 The best intellectual and artistic beliefs of a given society.
