Education and Identity in Rural France

The Politics of Schooling

By:

Deborah Reed-Danahay

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Hardback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology

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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 provdes lucid and critical discussions of sociological theories on education, including those of Bourdieu.

Author Biography:

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).

Release date Australia

December 7th, 1995

Author

Deborah Reed-Danahay

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

2 Tables, unspecified; 2 Maps; 8 Halftones, unspecified; 1 Line drawings, unspecified

Pages

256

Series

Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology

Dimensions

160x236x20

ISBN-13

9780521483124

Product ID

2363042

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