Education and Identity in Rural France(English, Hardcover, Reed-Danahay Deborah)

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Education and Identity in Rural France(English, Hardcover, Reed-Danahay Deborah) is written by Reed-Danahay Deborah and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0521483123 (ISBN 10) and 9780521483124 (ISBN 13).

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.