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Waks, Temple University  \nIntroduction: The Social Foundations of Education  \nIn this paper I re-imagine the social foundations of education (SFE) as a project within the information society. I start with what I take to be a reasonably non-controversial definition: SFE is a field of scholarship and teaching aiming to provide a comprehensive understanding, through description, interpretation, and social inquiry, of the educational institution of society and its relations with other institutions—economic, political, cultural, religious, familial, and socialstructural. It seeks to understand education both as it has existed in various previous societies and as it exists today, and it seeks to understand the dynamics of institutional change—how various intrinsic and extrinsic factors cause it to shift from one form to another and from its present to some future state. It also seeks to understand the broader aims, purposes and values underlying education, to evaluate educational policies and organizations in light of those purposes, to critique existing policies and organizations, to prescribe desirable changes in them and through publications, consultation and teaching to assist education publics, professionals, and policymakers in bringing about these changes.  \nWork in SFE is distinctly inter-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary. In engaging in its core tasks SFE draws upon the disciplines of history, sociology, philosophy, anthropology, economics, political science, and other disciplines as relevant. The philosophy, history, and sociology of education and other disciplines operating under the umbrella term “educational studies,” contribute to SFE but neither define it nor are comprehended by it—these fields maintain distinct identities as sub-disciplines within social science and humanities disciplines.  \nThis is the field of SFE that I have known and worked within for the last fifty years. It is the field as reflected in contemporary textbooks, and in course and program descriptions in university catalogs. Any effort to re-imagine SFE will have to remain bounded by such a definition—otherwise it will not be re-imagining SFE, but imagining a change from SFE to something else.  \nSocial Foundations as “Foundational”  \nIn what way are the tasks of SFE, as defined, “foundational?” We can consider three broad claims: (1) that SFE provides normative foundations upon which education should be constructed or reconstructed; (2) that SFE accounts for the causal foundations or root causes of educational practices, in factors extrinsic to education, such as class structure or interests of political elites; (3) that SFE provides the best knowledge base for thinking about educational practices and educational change.  \nNormative Foundations  \nStudents in SFE may convince themselves that they know best about what should be done. They are often frustrated by change processes that move too slowly, or in altogether wrong directions. If SFE scholars think they know best, then obviously they are all alone in thinking so. Only a Platonist theory would ascribe to scholars—as philosopher kings—the role of prescribing for society. In modern democracies policy makers, elected or appointed, make decisions based on many influences, including the preferences expressed by powerful economic elites, policy influencers such as Non Governmental Organization (NGO) operatives, and electoral majorities. From all appearances, these groups pay little or no attention at present to communications from SFE professionals. If SFE hopes to influence education, it will have to adopt new communication practices and join in alliances with influential groups in society. More about this later.  \nCausal Foundations  \nThe educational institution is a complex web of norms and practices. It is always undergoing changes, with emergent features responding to new social needs. 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