Download or read book Rituals and Student Identity in Education written by R. Quantz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of how the nonrational aspects of schooling, especially ritual(s), have been harnessed to construct a commonsense which serves the interests of transnational corporations, leaving those educators committed to democracy to develop a new pedagogy that rejects the technical solutions that present reforms demand.