SCHOOL RITUAL AS PERFORMANCE: A RECONSTRUCTION OF DURKHEIM'S AND TURNER'S USES OF RITUAL

SCHOOL RITUAL AS PERFORMANCE: A RECONSTRUCTION OF DURKHEIM'S AND TURNER'S USES OF RITUAL

Addresses the assumption that ritual performances are not as important in modern, secular, bureaucratic schools as they were in communal, sacred, tribal societies, reviving a concept forged in structuralism and redefining it as a performative text, thus taking advantage of certain poststructural ins...

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Published in:Educational theory Vol. 49; no. 4; pp. 493 - 513
Main Author: Quantz, Richard A.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01-12-1999
Subjects:
Durkheim (Emile)
Educational Theories
Elementary Secondary Education
Higher Education
Postmodernism
Rites of Passage
Ritual Behavior
Rituals
School Activities
School Culture
Schools
Social Influences
Social Theories
Turner (Victor)
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Summary:Addresses the assumption that ritual performances are not as important in modern, secular, bureaucratic schools as they were in communal, sacred, tribal societies, reviving a concept forged in structuralism and redefining it as a performative text, thus taking advantage of certain poststructural insights while maintaining much of the power of its forerunners. The theories of Durkheim and Turner are contrasted. (SM)
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ArticleID:EDTH493
ISSN:0013-2004
1741-5446
DOI:10.1111/j.1741-5446.1999.00493.x