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date: 21 March 2025

School Culturelocked

School Culturelocked

  • Diana Gonçalves VidalDiana Gonçalves VidalFaculty of Education, University of São Paulo
  • , and André PauliloAndré PauliloUniversidade Estadual de Campinas

Summary

Over the past several decades, scholars have focused special attention on the relationship between schooling and culture. The first forays focused on curriculum matters, trying to understand how educational policies affected the selection of content and its dissemination in schools. More recently, the concept of school culture has emerged as a frame for researchers, thanks to its ability to problematize how teachers and pupils experience school in terms of time and space. Placing these individuals in the center of the schooling process, the concept of school culture enables scholars to create a more comprehensive analysis of what happens inside classrooms and schoolyards. This tool offers an opportunity for researchers and teachers to debate the merits of tradition and innovation in education, pay attention to material culture as a part of school practices, and consider school community as a social actor. The concept has become commonplace in the academic production in many areas, such as educational sociology, history of education, educational anthropology, philosophy of education, and educational psychology.

Subjects

  • Education, Cultures, and Ethnicities
  • Educational Politics and Policy
  • Educational Systems
  • Education and Society
  • Educational Administration and Leadership
  • Educational History

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