Education and Identity in Rural France: The Politics of Schooling: 98 (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 98)
Cambridge University Press, 12/7/1995
EAN 9780521483124, ISBN10: 0521483123
Hardcover, 256 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm
Language: English
Drawing on an ethnographic study of a remote farming community in the Auvergne, Dr Reed-Danahay challenges conventional views about the operation of the French school system. She demonstrates how parents and children subvert and resist the ideological messages of the teachers, and describes the ways in which a sense of local difference is sustained and valued, through a complex interplay of schooling and family life. This book explores the role played by history, identity, and power in local responses to a national institution. A significant contribution to the anthropology of education, this book offers fresh insights into the ways in which French culture is transmitted to the coming generation. Dr Reed-Danahay also provides lucid and critical discussions of sociological theories on education, including those of Bourdieu.
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