Helder, Dewi (2020) Celebrating Jenaplan. Bachelor thesis, Bachelor Religiewetenschappen.
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Abstract
Celebrations within elementary education have been studied as ritual practices for some time, but there is still much more to examine. In the Netherlands there is a distinction between special education, which is education that is based upon a certain religious or pedagogical ideal, and public education, which is nonconformal. This study will focus on the ritual practices in a school that combines both kinds of educations, namely a public Jenaplan education. This thesis explores what celebrations are performed in public elementary Jenaplan education, to argue that these rituals are used to teach extra, more fundamental one could say, things, the ‘big lessons in life’. Using various theories on the function of rituals, the function of rituals within schools and the Jenaplan ideology there will be shown that the ritual practices of celebrations within Jenaplan education, by drawing on the body, intergenerational relationships, and the school community, aim to teach students more than the common curricula. The rituals thus serve as avenues to teach things that regular ways of teaching do not. This way of teaching can be seen as a post-secularist way of teaching, which does not claim to be religious, but which also does not shy away from the bigger questions in life that some consider religious.
| Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) | ||||||||||||
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| Degree programme: | Bachelor Religiewetenschappen | ||||||||||||
| Academic year: | 2019-2020 | ||||||||||||
| Date of delivery: | 28 May 2021 12:11 | ||||||||||||
| Last modified: | 28 May 2021 12:11 | ||||||||||||
| URI: | https://rcs.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/592 |
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