@article{Vain_2002, title={School Rituals and Educational Practice}, volume={10}, url={https://epaa.asu.edu/index.php/epaa/article/view/292}, DOI={10.14507/epaa.v10n13.2002}, abstractNote={This study on school rituals, based on an socio-anthropology view, has arisen from the hypothesis of the anthropologist Roberto Da Matta. This hypothesis supports the theory that rituals are useful, particularly in a complex society, to promote its social identity and develop its character. Da Matta observes that it is as if the ritual domain were a privileged area from whence to enter the cultural kernel of a society, its main ideology, its system of values. This is the reason why we have put forward the proposal that to enquire about rituals at schools can result in a useful contribution to the analysis of this institution in its reproductive dimension or in the construction of a determined social structure. This research was carried out in three schools in the city of Posadas, Misiones, Argentina. In two of them, the research was pursued as a sustained, long-term and ethnographic observation: students, parents, teachers and the managing staff were interviewed. In the third school, just the teachers and the managing staff were interviewed by means of a probing survey; in both cases, strategies, sources and techniques were combined.}, journal={Education Policy Analysis Archives}, author={Vain, Magister Pablo Daniel}, year={2002}, month={Feb.}, pages={13} }