Learning privilege : lessons of power and identity in affluent schooling / Adam Howard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howard, Adam.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Upper class--Education--United States.

Upper class.

Children of the rich--Education--United States.

Children of the rich.

Social status--United States.

Social status.

Education.

Upper class--Education.

United States.

Physical Description:

xviii, 272 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, [2008]

Summary:

How can teachers bridge the gap between their commitments to social justice and their day-to-day practice? This is the question that author Adam Howard asked as he began teaching at an elite private school. Unfamiliar with the educational landscape of privilege and abundance, he began exploring the 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 how they see themselves.

Grounded in an extensive ethnographic account of a six-year study on affluent schooling, Learning Privilege examines the concept of privilege itself and the cultural and social processes in schooling that reinforce the regenerate privilege. Howard explores what educators, students, and families at elite schools value most in education and how these values guide ways of knowing and doing that both create high standards for their educational programs and reinforce privilege as a collective identity. This book breaks new ground in studies of social class and education by illustrating the ways that affluent students construct their own privilege-not, fundamentally, as what they have, but, rather, as who they are.

Contents:

Teaching the affluent

Revisioning privilege

In pursuit of excellence

College-oriented desires and expectations

Trust

Honoring traditions

Giving back

Outsiders within

Privileged perceptions of the subjugated other

Interrupting privilege.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-256) and index.

ISBN:

9780415960816

0415960819

9780415960823

0415960827

OCLC:

85830724