Description - Dividing Classes by Ellen Brantlinger
Dividing Classes offers a first-hand ethnographic account to examine the relationship between social class structures and educational success. Instead of studying the historically marginalized lower classes, this book asserts the need to look beyond poor peoples' values of dominant groups to explain the reproduction of social class. Drawing on interviews with 31 administrators, principals, and teachers and 20 middle-class mothers in a small town, Ellen Brantlinger discovers the considerable power the middle class wields in determining school policy and practice to secure educational advantages for their children. With the insight gained from this perspective, the roots of increasingly conservative educational policy and the idea of class as an organising category in education are critically examined.
Buy Dividing Classes by Ellen Brantlinger from Australia's Online Independent Bookstore, BooksDirect.
Other Editions - Dividing Classes by Ellen Brantlinger
A Preview for this title is currently not available.
Available to order, ships in 7-10 business days
Who Benefits From Special Education?: Remediating (Fixing) Other People's Children
