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Dominant Forms, Penetration and Resistance in School Education

LI Zhi qiang   

  1. Department of Sociology, Hehai University, Nanjing 210098, China
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Abstract: From “what is the most valuable knowledge” to “whose knowledge is the most valuable”, critical education researchers tend to use such concepts as ideology, hegemony, symbolic violence to analyze the dominant forms in school education. Students from the subordinate class can obtain insight by drawing on their parents’ culture and contradictions within hegemony. Therefore, the resistance resulting from insight involves a variety of forms, but insight is not the only action mode of the subordinate students, resistance and obedience based on different motives should also be paid attention to.

Key words: school education, ideology, penetration, resistance