Cultural Arbitrariness and Schooling

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Course Outline

  1. School Logic and Cultural Arbitrariness
  2. Heterodox Appropriation and Social Handicap
  3. Music Curriculum and Rising Demands
  4. Changing Expectations in School Textbooks
  5. The Schooling of Nursery Education
  6. School Logic Beyond the Classroom
  7. Complexity in Children's Literature

1. School Logic and Cultural Arbitrariness

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📌 School language treats language as an object to examine in itself, whereas a practical relationship treats it primarily as a tool for communication in context.

  • Bernard Lahire's 1993 study of language teaching in primary school describes school knowledge as relying on a formal, distanced, scriptural relationship to language. - Culture Ă©crite et inĂ©galitĂ©s scolaires. Sociologie de « l’échec scolaire » Ă  l’école primaire

Further detail

  • Bernard Lahire builds on Jack Goody's work on the effects of writing on ways of thinking, cited as Goody (1979).

  • Teachers' demand for complete spoken sentences rather than answers such as “yes” or “no” shows that school values language that can be understood outside its original context.

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1. Which account did Bernard Lahire give of school knowledge in his 1993 study?

2. Regarding school and practical relationships to language, which statements are accurate?

3. How do orthodox and heterodox appropriation differ in their relation to institutional rules?

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Which 1993 study describes school knowledge as relying on a formal, distanced relationship to language?

Bernard Lahire’s *Culture Ă©crite et inĂ©galitĂ©s scolaires. Sociologie de « l’échec scolaire » Ă  l’école primaire*.

What distinguishes orthodox from heterodox appropriation?

Orthodox appropriation follows accepted institutional rules; heterodox appropriation follows a different logic.

Which work on writing’s effects on thought does Bernard Lahire build on, and when was it cited?

Jack Goody, 1979.

Which source presents Terrail’s critique of sociocultural handicap at school?

Terrail Jean-Pierre, « Les enfants de milieux populaires souffrent d’un handicap socio-culturel Ă  l’école », 2019.

What did Florence Eloy find about popular repertoires in school music curricula from 1938 to 2008?

Their inclusion did not end the school's formal, scriptural approach to music.

What do contemporary school expectations increasingly emphasize over memorization and recitation?

Reasoning, analysis, and abstraction.

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