Rituals and Student Identity in Education: Ritual Critique for a New Pedagogy (Education, Politics and Public Life)

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.

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