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.

Autorentext
RICHARD A. QUANTZ Professor of Social Foundations and Education at Miami University, USA.

Inhalt
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