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A 5 page research paper that presents a hypothetical field observation of two middle school classrooms in relation to the topic of studying microcultures. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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important areas of life" (Taussig). Families are microcultures, as are the groups formed by different religions. Microcultures exist on "almost any given block in America, (as) each house or apartment
may reflect a specific culture" (Taussig). One of the many places that microcultures are encountered are schools. Schools create their individual culture; their own objectives, established norms and ways of
dealing with transgressions against those norms. Teachers are ultimately responsible for implementing this culture in their classrooms. The following examination of a microculture looks specifically at the culture of an
eighth grade classroom. In describing why this microculture was chosen, the student researching this topic might decide to refer to an underlying personal interest in how schools are adapting
to the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, while also having to cope with completely changing the public school cultural paradigm in order to meet the needs of society,
which has shifted away from old Industrial Age concepts, which was forged at the dawn of the twentieth century. At that time, schools were modeled after factories. Ellwood Cubberley, an
educator of that era, commented, "Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the various
demands of life" (Wilms 606). The emphasis in this system was regimentation and standardization, and to a certain extent, its cultural features still linger in public schools today. However, the
Information Age requires workers who are capable of problem-solving, creativity, and thinking "out of the box." Regimentation no longer fits with societal needs and teachers are struggling to adapt, while
also meeting the stringent requirements of federal legislation and trying to make their lessons relevant so that students will be actively engaged with the lesson material. It is a daunting
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