Schooling as a Ritual Performance
Towards a Political Economy of Educational Symbols and Gestures
3rd Edition
Published on 12. August 1999
Book
Hardback
430 pages
978-0-8476-9195-1 (ISBN)
Description
An ethnography of schools, this text offers to help those seeking to understand the cultural meaning of classroom practices. Peter McLaren engages with anthropological thinking and presents a manifesto for critical ethnography.
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Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Lanham, MD
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 223 mm
Width: 147 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
617 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8476-9195-1 (9780847691951)
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Content
Introduction to the third edition - ethnographic research as the practice of possibility - towards a revolutionary ethnography; foreword to the second edition; foreword to the first edition; education as a cultural system; the setting; the structure of conformity; the antistructure of resistance; making Catholics; summary, recommendations and reflections; coda; afterword.