Learning Privilege: Lessons of Power and Identity in Affluent Schooling

by Howard; Adam

• ISBN13: 9780415960816
• ISBN10: 0415960819
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781135901196
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-12
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

P 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. /P P Grounded in an extensive ethnographic account of a six-year study on affluent schooling, EM Learning Privilege EM examines the concept of privilege itself and the cultural and social processes in schooling that reinforce and 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. /P P /P

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

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

References

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