Full Description
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.
Contents
Introduction to the Nonrational in Education: Ritual and the Forming of Reality, Morality, and Identity School Ritual as Performance: A Reconstruction of Durkheim's and Turner's Uses of Ritual From Ethnography to Ritual Critique: The Evolution of a Method; T.O'Connor Nonrational Classroom Performance: Ritual as Aspect of Action; P.Magolda On Seminars, Ritual, And Cowboys The Puzzlemasters: Performing the Mundane, Searching for Intellect, and Living in the Belly of the Corporation Ritual Critique and the New Pedagogy
