School instills state-centered worldview to displace folkloristic traditional conceptions

Evidence

The first, primary grade should not last longer than three or four years, and in addition to imparting the first “instrumental” notions of schooling—reading, writing, sums, geography, history— ought in particular to deal with an aspect of education that is now neglected—i.e. with “rights and duties”, with the first notions of the State and society as primordial elements of a new conception of the world which challenges the conceptions that are imparted by the various traditional social environments, i.e. those conceptions which can be termed folkloristic. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 339

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘folkloristic’ conceptions — worldview carried by traditional social environments — and positions schooling as the replacement vehicle for a state-oriented worldview.
• XREF: Foreshadows Gramsci’s ‘common sense’ vs ‘good sense’ distinction and the fight over ‘common sense’ that later critical-theory readings (including Islamophobia formation) rely on. — connects to: Public schools should cultivate ethical thought about cultural patterns harming life — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 226; Racialized trust in the noble-savage myth sustained school regimentation. — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 488; Multiculturalism backlash aims to stop epistemology from being questioned in class — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 272