Materská škola ako miesto profánnych a magicko-náboženských prechodových rituálov

• Authors: Kascak Ondrej

Title variants

EN

NURSERY SCHOOL AS A PLACE OF PROFANE AND SACRAL TRANSITIONAL RITUALS

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The author analyses the organization of selected nursery schools and their interactive patterns with the assistance of ethnological concept of rituals of transition. Two types of nursery schools were chosen for this purpose - the alternative model of initial schooling represented by approach of Maria Montessori and the common public nursery school. The author describes the Montessori-preschool as a place of sacral ritual practices which correspond to transitional schema of A. van Gennep and V. Turner. The common public nursery school can be also understood as organization based on rituals of transition, but its rituals are symbolically reduced and meet more profane purposes. These propositions are demonstrated with the assistance of conceptual and field data (resulting from school ethnography). The significant symbolic divergence of transitional schema in both organizations is in contrast to similar formative effects on children. The common implicit aim of these schemas seems to be the effective conformization of behavior, which Montessori calls 'joyful obedience'.

Keywords

EN

LIMINAL STAGE; MONTESSORI-PRESCHOOL; NURSERY SCHOOL; POST-LIMINAL STAGE; PRE-LIMINAL STAGE; PROFANE AND SACRAL COMPONENT; RITUALS OF TRANSITION

Discipline

• EDUCATION: EDUCATION
• ANTHROPOLOGY: ANTHROPOLOGY
• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Český lid: etnologický časopis (Český lid: Ethnological journal)
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 95
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 337-353
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kascak Ondrej

• Ondrej Kascak, Katedra predskolskej a elemantarnej pedagogiky, Pedagogicka fakulta, Trnavska univerzita, Priemyselna 4, 918 43, Trnava, Slovak Republic, http://dlib.lib.cas.cz/3491/

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09CZAAAA055211