Schooling as a Ritual Performance: Toward a Political Economy of Educational Symbols and GesturesOne 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
Education as a cultural system | 1 |
The setting | 51 |
The structure of conformity | 81 |
The antistructure of resistance | 145 |
Making Catholics | 180 |
Summary recommendations and reflections | 217 |
Coda | 263 |
Afterword | 292 |
Notes | 299 |
Bibliography | 309 |
Name index | 337 |
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Page xxxii - Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.
Page xliii - Men make their own history, but not of their own free will; not under circumstances they themselves have chosen but under the given and inherited circumstances with which they are directly confronted.