Schooling as a ritual performance : toward a political economy of educational symbols and gestures / Peter McLaren.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McLaren, Peter, 1948-

Series:

Culture and education series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic schools--Ontario--Toronto--Case studies.

Catholic schools.

Education--Aims and objectives.

Education.

Education--Social aspects--Ontario--Toronto--Case studies.

Educational anthropology--Ontario--Toronto--Case studies.

Educational anthropology.

Education--Social aspects.

Ontario--Toronto.

Local Subjects:

Education--Aims and objectives.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

lxxiii, 354 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [1999]

Summary:

One of the most compelling ethnographies of school ever written, Schooling as a Ritual Performance has for over a decade made its mark among educators, sociologists, and those seeking to understand the cultural meaning of classroom practices. Written by one of the major world figures on the educational left, Schooling as a Ritual Performance is a pioneering study of the partnership between capitalism and religion and the educational offspring it produces. Not since Paul Willis' Learning to Labor has an educational ethnography about schooling so pushed the limits of current social theory.

Now, in a new edition to this classic text, McLaren engages with some of the latest anthropological thinking and presents readers with a powerful manifesto for critical ethnography in the coming millennium.

Contents:

1 Education as a cultural system 1

2 The setting 51

3 The structure of conformity 81

4 The antistructure of resistance 145

5 Making Catholics 180.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [309]-336) and indexes.

ISBN:

0847691950

0847691969

OCLC:

41026635