Rituals and Student Identity in Education

Rituals and Student Identity in Education
Author: R. Quantz
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2011-01-31
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0230117163

An exploration of how the nonrational aspects of schooling, especially ritual(s), have been harnessed to construct a commonsense which serves the interests of transnational corporations, leaving those educators committed to democracy to develop a new pedagogy that rejects the technical solutions that present reforms demand.

Rituals and Student Identity in Education

Rituals and Student Identity in Education
Author: R. Quantz
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-02-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780230101166

An exploration of how the nonrational aspects of schooling, especially ritual(s), have been harnessed to construct a commonsense which serves the interests of transnational corporations, leaving those educators committed to democracy to develop a new pedagogy that rejects the technical solutions that present reforms demand.

Roma Identity and Ritual in the Classroom

Roma Identity and Ritual in the Classroom
Author: Jana Obrovská
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2018-09-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3319945149

This book addresses the dynamics of interethnic relationships in ethnically mixed classrooms in the Czech Republic. The classroom is a space in which the boundaries and meanings of facets of identity such as ethnicity, class and gender are negotiated on a daily basis: using rich ethnographic data, the author grounds the analysis in a novel theoretical framework which uses the traditional concept of ritual to examine peer cultures. Highlighting the perspectives of the students themselves, their own peer cultures and the agency of the minority youth present in the classroom, the book reinforces the idea that the dynamics of peer culture can be the scene for successful peer inclusion strategies as well as a stage for the reproduction of inequalities. The author offers a rich array of data from post-socialist classrooms, which are almost invisible in the dominant debates surrounding ethnicity. This revelatory book will be of interest and value to students and scholars of social anthropology, the sociology of education and race and ethnicity in education, as well as practitioners working with minority youth.

Rituals and Traditions

Rituals and Traditions
Author: Jacky Howell
Publisher: National Association of Education of Young Children
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2015
Genre: Early childhood education
ISBN: 9781938113161

Rituals and traditions in preschool programs have the power to - Connect children, families, and staff - Foster a sense of belonging - Create a positive learning environment The information in this book answers the questions of why rituals and traditions are important and how teachers can incorporate them into their daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly plans to create a supportive, caring community.

Confucian Ritual and Moral Education

Confucian Ritual and Moral Education
Author: Colin J. Lewis
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2020-09-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1793612420

It is widely accepted that moral education is quintessential to facilitating and maintaining prosocial attitudes. What moral education should entail and how it can be effectively pursued remain hotly disputed questions. In Confucian Ritual and Moral Education, Colin J. Lewis examines these issues by appealing to two traditions that have until now escaped comparison: Vygotsky’s theory of learning and psychosocial development and ancient Confucianism’s ritualized approach to moral education. Lewis argues first, that Vygotsky and the Confucians complement one another in a manner that enables a nuanced, empirically sound understanding of how the Confucian ritual education model should be construed and how it could be deployed; and second, just as ritual education in the Confucian tradition can be explicated in terms of modern developmental theory, this ancient notion of ritual can also serve as a viable resource for moral education in a contemporary, diverse world.

Rituals and Student Identity in Education

Rituals and Student Identity in Education
Author: R. Quantz
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2011-01-31
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0230117163

An exploration of how the nonrational aspects of schooling, especially ritual(s), have been harnessed to construct a commonsense which serves the interests of transnational corporations, leaving those educators committed to democracy to develop a new pedagogy that rejects the technical solutions that present reforms demand.

Curriculum and the Generation of Utopia

Curriculum and the Generation of Utopia
Author: João M. Paraskeva
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2020-06-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000166368

As a follow-up to Towards a Just Curriculum Theory and Curriculum Epistemicide , this volume illuminates the challenges and contradictions which have prevented critical curriculum theory from establishing itself as an alternative to dominant Western Eurocentric epistemologies. Curriculum and the Generation of Utopia re-visits the work of leading progressive theorists and draws on a complex range of epistemological perspectives from the Middle East, Africa, Southern Europe, and Latin America. Paraskeva illustrates how counter-dominant narratives have been suppressed by neoliberal dynamics through an exploration of key issues including: itinerant curriculum theory, globalization and internationalization, as well as utopianism. Foregrounding critical curriculum theory as a vector of de-colonization and de-centralization, the text puts forth Itinerant Curriculum Theory (ITC) as an alternative form of anti-colonial, theoretical engagement. This work forms an important addition to the literature surrounding critical curriculum theory. It will be of interest to post-graduate scholars, researchers and academics in the fields of curriculum studies, curriculum theory, and critical educational research.

Dynamics in Circle Rituals

Dynamics in Circle Rituals
Author: Hongyan Chen
Publisher: Waxmann Verlag
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2016
Genre: Education
ISBN: 383098524X

This study focuses on the issues of secrecy, ambiguity and flexibility in what is known as the 'morning circle' in German schools. The morning circle has a longstanding tradition in the German school system and is widely practised. Over the past twenty years, this tradition has been the subject of increasing academic debates, many of which have suffered from one-sided viewpoints that reduce the morning circle to a warm-up phase for the school day or a means of teaching language. What has not been addressed in these debates is the initial notion of the circle as 'the primary feature of new education' (Petersen) - which challenged traditional educational ideas -, or the question as to why the morning circle has become so widespread in German schools today.

Critical Theory: Rituals, Pedagogies and Resistance

Critical Theory: Rituals, Pedagogies and Resistance
Author: Peter McLaren
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2022-03-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 900450768X

This collection of essays incorporates some of the most important and longstanding foundational texts in education developed by the leading educational neo-Gramscian social theorist Peter McLaren

Sociocultural Studies in Education

Sociocultural Studies in Education
Author: Richard A Quantz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2016-01-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317260759

Sociocultural Studies in Education: Critical Thinking for Democracy fills a void in the education of educators and citizens in a democracy. It explores some of the fundamentals around which disagreements in education arise. It presents a process with which those new to these debates can understand often confusing and entwined sets of facts and logics. This book leads the reader through some general concepts and intellectual skills that provide the basis for making sense out of the debates around public education in a democracy. This book can be seen as a primer on how to read texts about education. It acknowledges that good teachers must be not only trained to teach, but also educated about education. It presents the various themes and currents found within the arguments and narratives that people use to represent public education. It assumes that the more those interested in education know about how to see through the rhetoric, the better they will be at discerning whose interests are served by which texts.