One of the most compelling ethnographies of school ever written,
'Schooling as a Ritual Performance' has for over a decade made its mark
among educators, sociologists, and those seeking to understand the
cultural meaning of classroom practices. Written by one of the major
world figures on the educational left, 'Schooling as a Ritual
Performance' is a pioneering study of the partnership between capitalism
and religion and the educational offspring it produces. Not since Paul
Willis' 'Learning to Labor' has an educational ethnography about
schooling so pushed the limits of current social theory. Now, in a new
edition to this classic text, McLaren engages with some of the latest
anthropological thinking and presents readers with a powerful manifesto
for critical ethnography in the coming millennium.