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Spiritual and Ethical Orality in Children: Educating an oral self

Infants and children learn through organizing their experience into generalizable forms. One aim for teaching is to help children learn to organize personal, social, ethical and spiritual experience so they can pick out common human themes among people as well as identify particular authentic differences between people. The dominant modern educational strategies for organizing experience have been based on literacy. This essay suggests that literacy needs to reconnect with orality and oral learning strategies in order to accommodate shifts in the constitution of personal and public identity that children face due to technological and social change. Under the current technological and social conditions, the citizens we educate for the future need to be both oral and literate as they construct a sustainable identity, so as to ground their personal freedom and public commitments on a willingness and ability to be 'near and different'.