Abstract
Exploring memorial ceremonies conducted in Israeli schools over the past decade, this paper discusses the school memorial ceremony as a potential site for struggle over national identities, and schools as the social arena of an encounter between the State and civil society. Analysis of 50 ethnographies (elicited from semi-structured observations) revealed that school memorial ceremonies constitute a diversified interpretative field, which includes both canonic characteristics and elements of innovation and resistance. This ceremonial field is characterized by a tension between expressing 'other voices' of civil society and the process of cooptation into the national collective.
| Original language | American English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 291-305 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | British Journal of Sociology of Education |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jul 2004 |
RAMBI Publications
- Rambi Publications
- Collective memory -- Israel
- Education, Secondary -- Israel
- Death -- Religious aspects -- Judaism