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ERIC Number: EJ602630
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-2004
School Ritual as Performance: A Reconstruction of Durkheim's and Turner's Uses of Ritual.
Quantz, Richard A.
Educational Theory, v49 n4 p493-513 Fall 1999
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)
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Performance, Postmodernism, School Activities, School Culture, Schools, Social Influences, Social Theories
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Durkheim (Emile); Rites of Passage; Ritual Behavior; Rituals; Turner (Victor)