Jaskulska, Sylwia2014-02-242014-02-242013Studia Edukacyjne, nr 26, 2013, s. 79-98978-83-232-2658-11233-6688http://hdl.handle.net/10593/10100The text is part of a debate on the possibility of studying the school through the prism of the anthropological category of "rite". By referring myself to Arnold van Gennep and Victor W. Turner's theory of "rites of passage", I pose a question on the possibility of analysing the current social reality as a series of rites of passage. I touch upon the issue of the universal character of the traditional approach to the "rite of passage" category. I inquire into how much it matches the issues currently formulated in pedagogical research.plrite of passageritual face of schoolpedagogical researchArtykuł