The representation of ritualized passages is absent n the novel; but there is a combination of both, formal and informal instruction. In the beginning, the community focuses on teaching the kids the basic needs for survival, like how to gather resources, it wasn’t until the year of Schoolteaching that Ish began to think there was a need for formalized instruction. As stated, education not only serves the purpose of passing down knowledge, it also reproduces culture and encourages social change. Unlike kinship, education seems to resemble that of late agrarianism instead of hunting and gathering societies. Before the great disaster, it can be assumed that formal instruction was taken place; after all, Ish was a graduate student. It would make sense to imply that there was an established form of education and, therefore, after the great disaster, Ish decided to continue the education process within his new
The representation of ritualized passages is absent n the novel; but there is a combination of both, formal and informal instruction. In the beginning, the community focuses on teaching the kids the basic needs for survival, like how to gather resources, it wasn’t until the year of Schoolteaching that Ish began to think there was a need for formalized instruction. As stated, education not only serves the purpose of passing down knowledge, it also reproduces culture and encourages social change. Unlike kinship, education seems to resemble that of late agrarianism instead of hunting and gathering societies. Before the great disaster, it can be assumed that formal instruction was taken place; after all, Ish was a graduate student. It would make sense to imply that there was an established form of education and, therefore, after the great disaster, Ish decided to continue the education process within his new