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This Bed of Roses Has Thorns: Cultural Assumptions and Community in an Elementary School
Author(s) -
Bushnell Mary
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1525/aeq.2001.32.2.139
Subject(s) - ethnography , sociology , phrase , educational anthropology , social science , pedagogy , anthropology , linguistics , philosophy
Educational reformers and social observers call for increasing community in our schools and neighborhoods. In that discourse, community appears as a catch phrase that has become meaningless in its ubiquity. Through an ethnographic study of a small elementary school in which community is regularly invoked, the author identifies community's negative as well as beneficial aspects and discusses the implications for schools.