Social Class and Education: Global Perspectives

by Weis; Lois

• ISBN13: 9780415886963
• ISBN10: 0415886961
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2012-03-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Social Class and Education: Global Perspectivesis the first empirically grounded volume to explore the intersections of class, social structure, opportunity, and education on a truly global scale. Fifteen essays from contributors representing the US, Europe, China, Latin America and other regions offer an unparralleled examination of how social class differences are made and experienced through schooling. By underscoring the consequences of our new global reality, this volume takes seriously the transnational migration of commerce, capital and peoples and the ramifications of such for education and social structure. Moving beyond national confines, internationally recognized scholars, Lois Weis and Nadine Dolby, offer a set of emblematic essays that break new theoretical and empirical ground on the ways class is produced and maintained through education around the world.

Author Biography

Lois Weis is State University of New York Distinguished Professor of Sociology of Education at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Nadine Dolby is Associate Professor of Curriculum Studies at Purdue University.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vii
List of Tables	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: Social Class and Education in Globalizing Context	p. 1
Postsecondary Access, Equity, and Educational Opportunity in the Global Economy	p. 13
Expanded Opportunities for All in Global Higher Education Systems	p. 15
The Changing Educational Opportunity Structure in China: Positioning for Access to Higher Education	p. 37
Race, Class, and Bachelor's Degree Completion in American Higher Education: Examining the Role of Life Course Transitions	p. 51
Cultural Politics, Transnational Movement, and the Role of Class	p. 71
Class Wreckage and Class Re-Positioning: Narratives of Japanese-Educated Taiwanese	p. 73
Producing Class and Ethnic Identities among Turkish Youth in Working- and Middle-Class Schools in Germany	p. 91
Transnational Latin American Families in the United States: Parenting and Schooling in the "Neither Here Nor There"	p. 107
African Migrant Youth, Schooling, and Social Class in Cape Town	p. 124
Class and the Changing Global Educational Context	p. 139
Global Scapes of Abjection: The Contemporary Dynamics of Some Intersecting Injustices	p. 141
"Being Middle Class Is Not Enough": Social Class, Education, and School Choice in Spain	p. 159
Educating Supranational Citizens: The Incorporation of English Language Education into Curriculum Policies	p. 177
Cultural Politics in the "New" India: Social Class, Neoliberal Globalization, and the Education Paradox	p. 198
List of Contributors	p. 213
Index	p. 218
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