Education and Identity in Rural France - The Politics of Schooling (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Release date:	November 2004
First published:	1996
Authors:	Deborah Reed-Danahay (Professor of Anthropology)
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-61617-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Philosophy of education Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Promotions
LSN:	0-521-61617-4
Barcode:	9780521616171

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