Learning Privilege : Lessons of Power and Identity in Affluent Schooling


Adam. Howard
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
Annen tittel
Utgitt
Hoboken : : Taylor and Francis, , 2013.
Omfang
1 online resource (291 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Learning Privilege; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1: Teaching the Affluent; Challenging Privilege; Students' Responses; Coming to Understandings of Privilege; A Critical Interpretative Study of Privilege; 2: Revisioning Privilege; Social Class and Schooling; Understandings of Privilege4; Identity Formation; Identity as Ideologically Mediated Action; 3: In Pursuit of Excellence; A Well-Established Community; Getting It Right; Playing the Game; A Competitive Game; 4: College-Oriented Desiresand Expectations; A Separate Place2. - A Busy EnvironmentSocial Hierarchies and Ambition; The Real Fudge; Twists and Turns; Getting In; 5: Trust; A Special Place to Live; Shared Vision and Commitment; A Trusting Environment; A Trusting Community; Familiarity; Respect for Differences; Honesty; Responsibility; A Different World; 6: Honoring Traditions; The Comforts of Abundance; The Imprint of History; Morning Assembly; A Distinctive Community; Binding Together; "Boys Being Boys"; Contested Framings; ""Just Joking Around"-Humor as an Explanatory Frame; Rites and Rituals: An Overview. - Leveled AspirationsReflections on My Conversations with Jason; Understanding and Justifying Advantages; We Work Hard in School; We Care about Education; We Pay More Money for Our Education; Privileged Identities Revealed: Ideological Operations and Frames; 10: Interrupting Privilege; Lessons of Privilege; Instructional Settings That Interrupt Privilege; A Critically Hopeful Vision; A Broader Agenda; Notes; Preface; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; References; Index. - Shared Performance and the Power of Embodied MeaningsHazing; Liminal vs. Liminoid: Clarification vs. Confusion; Conclusion; 7: Giving Back; Summer of Service; Out for Lunch; The Galaxy Awaits; Resistance; Outsider Status; Reasons for Involvement in Pathways; Resisting Privilege8; Transformational Service; 8: Outsiders Within1; Participants, Approach, and Context of the Discussion; Perception That Private Schools Are Better; Conflicted Cultures; Gender Differences; A Need for Change; Disharmony in Diversity; 9: Privileged Perceptions of the Subjugated Other; Far Different Realities Nearby. - How can teachers bridge the gap between their commitments to social justice and their day to day practice? This is the question author Adam Howard asked as he began teaching at an elite private school and the question that led him to conduct a six-year study on affluent schooling. Unfamiliar with the educational landscape of privilege and abundance, he began exploring the burning questions he had as a teacher on the lessons affluent students are taught in schooling about their place in the world, their relationships with others, and who they are. Grounded in an extensive eth
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9780415960816. - 9780415960823

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