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Educating Elites
Class Privilege and Educational Advantage
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2010
Summary
The gaze of educational researchers has traditionally been turned 'down' toward the experiences of communities deemed at-risk, presumably with the purpose of improving their plight. Indeed, theorizing about the relationship between education, culture, and society has typically emerged from the study of poor and marginalized groups in public schools. Seldom have educational researchers considered class privilege and educational advantage in their attempts at understanding inequality and fomenting social justice. This collection of groundbreaking studies breaks with this tradition by shifting the gaze of inquiry 'up,' toward the experiences of privilege in educational environments characterized by wealth and the abundance of material resources. This edited volume brings together established and emerging scholars in education and the social sciences working critically to interrogate a diversity of educational environments serving the interests of influential groups both within and beyond schools. The authors investigate the power relations that underlie various contexts of class privilege. They shed light into the ways in which the success of a few relates to the failure of many.
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Bibliographic data
Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-1-60709-459-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-60709-460-9
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
214
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Foreword No access
Ch01. Introduction: Why Study Up? No access Pages 1 - 12
Ch02. Preparing for Power: Twenty-Five Years Later No access Pages 13 - 30
Ch03. Educating for Hegemony, Researching for Change: Collaborating with Teachers and Students to Examine Bullying at an Elite Private School No access Pages 31 - 54
Ch04. A Part and Apart: Students of Color Negotiating Boundaries at an Elite Boarding School No access Pages 55 - 78
Ch05. Stepping Outside Class: Affluent Students Resisting Privilege No access Pages 79 - 96
Ch06. Getting In: How Elite Schools Play the College Game No access Pages 97 - 112
Ch07. The Effects of Parents’ College Tier on Their Offspring’s Educational Attainments No access Pages 113 - 130
Ch08. Class Dismissed? The Social-Class Worldviews of Privileged College Students No access Pages 131 - 152
Ch09. Pageantry, Pedagogy, and Pandorea: Literacies of the Southern Belle No access Pages 153 - 172
Ch10. On Not Seeming Like You Want Anything: Privileged Girls’ Dilemmas of Ambition and Selflessness No access Pages 173 - 194
Ch11. Conclusion: Outlining a Research Agenda on Elite Education No access Pages 195 - 210
