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Quantz, Richard A. – Educational Theory, 1999
Addresses the assumption that ritual performances are not as important in modern, secular, bureaucratic schools as they were in communal, sacred, tribal societies, reviving a concept forged in structuralism and redefining it as a performative text, thus taking advantage of certain poststructural insights while maintaining much of the power of its…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Performance