Espaces et figures de la rituausation scolaire

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to put into perspective the forms of school ritualisation and the specific biographical constructions that the school institution carries. An abstract area of the perceived world, a place of auto referential relations towards knowledge which erects the signs and the discourses as finalities for themselves, the school is its own stage; its mode of action from a generalized perfomativity with which it never cesses to coincide its practical accomplishments with the signs that these produce. The school finds its elasticity for this performativity in the elaboration of zones and apparatus ritualizedfrom which it accomplishes the acts of education-apprenticeship, even in the gesture of their representation. In this framework, the figure of the pupil analyzed as an ensemble of prescriptions defining the models of participation in the rituals enacted in school, establishes an injunction biographic of the pupils-individuals.