Education and Identity in Rural France - The Politics of Schooling

Informationen zum Autor Deborah Reed-Danahay is Professor of Anthropology at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. She is author of Education and Identity in Rural France: The Politics of Schooling (Cambridge University Press, 1996) and Locating Bourdieu (Indiana University Press, 2005), and editor of Auto/Ethnography: Rewriting the Self and the Social (Berg, 1997), and (with C. Brettell) Citizenship, Political Engagement and Belonging: Immigrants in Europe and the United States (Rutgers University Press, 2008). Zusammenfassung In an ethnographic study of a remote community in the Auvergne! Dr Reed-Danahay challenges conventional views about the French school system and demonstrates how parents subvert and resist the ideological messages of the teachers. This book offers fresh insights into the ways in which French culture is transmitted to the coming generation. Inhaltsverzeichnis l. Introduction: journey to Lavialle; 2. Theoretical orientations: schooling, families, and power; 3. Cultural identity and social practice; 4.Les notres: families and farms; 5. From child to adult; 6. Schooling the Laviallois: historical perspectives; 7. Families and schooling; 8. The politics of schooling; 9. Everyday life at school; l0. Conclusions: persistence, resistance, and co-existence

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Deborah Reed-Danahay, Deborah (Professor of Anthropology Reed-Danahay
• Con la collaborazione di: Meyer Fortes (Editore), Edmund Leach (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 18.11.2004
• EAN: 9780521616171
• ISBN: 978-0-521-61617-1
• Pagine: 256
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Social an
• Categorie: Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Politica; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Etnologia > Etnologia