Schooling as a Ritual Performance

Peter McLaren is one of the foremost social theorists in North America and a leading international figure on the educational left. He is known throughout the world for his political criticism and his passionate commitment to social justice. McLaren teaches in the Division of Urban Schooling at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. His most recent book is Revolutionary Multiculturalism: Pedagogies of Dissent for the New Millennium (Westview Press, 1997). His work has been published in eleven languages.

Those who have been waiting for a successor to Jonathon Kozol may find in this book an alternative source of anthropological criticism of schooling.

• Chapter 1 Introduction to the Third Edition: Ethnographic Research as the Practice of Possibility: Towards a Revolutionary EthnographyChapter 2 Education as a Cultural SystemChapter 3 The SettingChapter 4 The Structure of ConformityChapter 5 The Antistructure of ResistanceChapter 6 Making CatholicsChapter 7 Summary, Recommendations, and ReflectionsChapter 8 CodaChapter 9 Afterword