NDLI: Let's Get Our Houses in Order: The Role of Transitional Rituals in Constructing Moral Kindergartners

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Author	McCadden, Brian M.
Copyright Year	1997
Abstract	This article stems from a participant-observation study I conducted in a full-day kindergarten classroom in a central North Carolina public school during the autumn of 1994. In attempting to understand how morality was constructed by the teacher and children there, I saw that the teacher utilized a series of rituals to help the children shed their external (home) roles, make the transition to their school roles, and reaggregate as students (as opposed to children). While she conceptualized these activities as merely organizing the children for the school day, I interpreted them as a manifestation of rites of passage (van Gennep, 1960; Turner, 1969). This paper is the second in a three-part examination of these rites of passage, in which I map out and explore the teacher's use of transitional or liminal rituals to construct the moral identity of the role of student and foster the children's attachment to that role.
Starting Page	239
Ending Page	252
Page Count	14
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00420972
Journal	The Urban Review
Volume Number	29
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15731960
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers
Publisher Date	1997-01-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Education (general) Education Research Sociology Pedagogic Psychology Community & Environmental Psychology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Urban Studies Education

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