The School Parade as a Text: The Management of Diversity on National Commemorations in Greece

Autor/in	Benincasa, Luciana
Titel	The School Parade as a Text: The Management of Diversity on National Commemorations in Greece
Quelle	In: Ethnography and Education, 14 (2019) 2, S.170-191 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Benincasa, Luciana)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1745 -7823
DOI	10.1080/17457823.2018.1434732
Schlagwörter	Ceremonies; Cultural Traits; Educational Policy; Participant Observation; Cultural Pluralism; Moral Values; Foreign Countries; Body Height; Academic Achievement; Student Participation; Selection Criteria; Laws; Human Body; Ethnography; Educational Environment; Secondary School Students; Physical Education Teachers; Physical Characteristics; Integrity; Greece + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Zeremoniell; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Teilnehmende Beobachtung; Kulturpluralismus; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Ausland; Körpergröße; Schulleistung; Schülermitarbeit; Schülermitwirkung; Studentische Mitbestimmung; Selection criterion; Auslesekriterium; Law; Recht; Menschlicher Körper; Ethnografie; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Sekundarschüler; Physical education; Physical training; Teacher; Teachers; Sportlehrer; Körperliche Erscheinung; Integrität; Griechenland
Abstract	The paper approaches school parades on national commemorations in Greece as a 'text' for storing and transmitting cultural meanings and value hierarchies. The study is based on policy documents and participant observation. The detailed Ministry instructions on how schools should select students for the parade may be viewed as instructions on how to manage dimensions of diversity. Two such dimensions are tallness and achievement, established by law as selection criteria. The latter could point to both intellectual abilities and effort. However, because of the dominance of effort in Greek educational rhetoric, achievement comes to be perceived mainly as an indicator of moral qualities, e.g. hard work. The selected students are distributed along the body of the parade according to 'syntactic' rules, i.e. mainly 'firstness'. Skilful management of bodily and moral 'diversity' makes underlying value hierarchies explicit, thus producing cultural meanings and turning the parade into a text about the nation. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01