ABSTRACT
MC: How did Culture and Agency, your next big project, emerge from Social Origins of Educational Systems?
MA: From what are simple questions, particularly in the centralized system. If culture is the football, what appears in schools and universities on the curriculum is a golf ball inside the football. So the football is a cultural system and so is the golf ball, but how does that boundary get defined? You can ask the same question about a decentralized system. All these forms of knowledge are out there. Some of them particular to a specific area or activity and so on. How do they actually get into schools? In the schools or in the night schools
in a particular area? MC: So it’s the selection of a particular range of elements from the whole cultural
system and how that happened socio-culturally? That’s substantively the question that came straight out of your earlier work.
