The politics of good teaching in provincial Morocco
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
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[Thesis]
First Statement of Responsibility
Gareth C. Smail
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Adely, Fida J.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Georgetown University
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2015
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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114
GENERAL NOTES
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Committee members: Abi-Mershed, Osama
NOTES PERTAINING TO PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-71229-2
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
M.A.
Discipline of degree
Arab Studies
Body granting the degree
Georgetown University
Text preceding or following the note
2015
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Can new concepts of pedagogy transform social hierarchy in Morocco? This thesis examines how new conceptions of good teaching interact with Morocco's historical mechanisms of social reproduction through education, using ethnographic and interview data collected among public secondary teachers of English and Arabic in a specific province of Morocco's Middle Atlas. Building on Pierre Bourdieu's theory of practice and its major concepts - habitus, capital and field - I argue that language and language teaching in Morocco has historically played a pivotal role in the reproduction of hierarchy and social exclusion. Beginning in the early 1980's, these mechanisms of exclusion entered a crisis of legitimacy, which was 'retranslated' as a pedagogical failure, and within the context of neoliberal ideology, into a seemingly apolitical imperative that teaching be of a certain quality, namely learner-centered.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Educational sociology; Middle Eastern Studies
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Social sciences;Education;Language;Morocco;Neoliberal;Pedagogy;Social reproduction