Education and Identity in Rural France
Education and Identity in Rural France
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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.
- The first study which combines ethnography of a social organization with a culture of the local community
- A major contribution to the anthropology of education and anthropology of childhood, relatively new fields/disciplines
- Theoretical framework draws on Pierre Bourdieu's seminal work on education, class and social reproduction
Product details
December 1995Hardback
9780521483124
256 pages
236 × 160 × 20 mm
0.516kg
9 b/w illus. 2 maps 2 tables
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Table of Contents
- 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
