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School as a Sociocultural Activity

School as a Sociocultural Activity. What do students learn from their participation in school?. What do children and young people learn in school?. What do they learn?. How or where might they learn it?. American history To raise their hand before talking in class What the coolest song is

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School as a Sociocultural Activity

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  1. School as a Sociocultural Activity What do students learn from their participation in school?

  2. What do children and young people learn in school? What do they learn? How or where might they learn it? • American history • To raise their hand before talking in class • What the coolest song is • Dirty jokes • There are social hierarchies between teachers and students • There are social hierarchies among students • The school is a united community that stands together (against other schools)

  3. What are young people learning in “The Great Football Ritual”? And how are they learning it?

  4. Why is Peer Culture Important? • How are young people being socialized through their peers, rather than adults? • How are schools as institutions creating a age-segregated domain that allows for the flourishing of a peer culture? • What is the role that a “child culture” or “youth culture” plays in our society? Does it prepare young people for adult roles or does it look different?

  5. What is school? • Classrooms • Offices • Lunchroom • Gym class, art class • Hallways, bathrooms, and lockers • Recess, playground, sports fields, parking lot • Extracurricular activities (sports, choir, debate, yearbook, etc) • Going on the bus to school? • Friendship networks formed by school?

  6. How is football like a ritual?

  7. An Anthropological View of Rituals Primary school students marching on Ignacio Allende’s birthday, Mexico • Do not have to be sacred, but can be secular (like national holidays) • Follow a distinct, recognizable form • Draw on powerful symbols • Dramatic • Embody and transmit certain worldviews, norms, and values • Can invert those same norms • Can reify the world around them • Transform participants into different social statuses as well as different states of consciousness and emotion • Bring people together in community: sense of shared feeling and solidarity

  8. Prom, Pennsylvania, 1956

  9. Homecoming, 1959

  10. Powderpuff game, p. 51 • What is Foley’s analysis? • Do you agree or disagree with it?

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