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The Resource Educating elites : class privilege and educational advantage, edited by Adam Howard and Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández

Educating elites : class privilege and educational advantage, edited by Adam Howard and Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández

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Educating elites : class privilege and educational advantage
Title
Educating elites
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class privilege and educational advantage
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edited by Adam Howard and Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández
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eng
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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Howard, Adam
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non fiction
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bibliography
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1971-
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Gaztambide-Fernandez, Rubén A.
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  • Elite (Social sciences)
  • Upper class
  • Boarding schools
  • Universities and colleges
  • Education, Higher
  • Social status
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Educating elites : class privilege and educational advantage, edited by Adam Howard and Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández
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Includes bibliographical references
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volume
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rdacarrier.
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  • txt
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rdacontent.
Contents
Introduction: why study up? / Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández and Adam Howard -- Preparing for power: twenty-five years later / Peter W. Cookson Jr. and Caroline Hodges Persell -- Educating for hegemony-researching for change: collaborating with teachers and students to examine bullying at an elite private school / Brett G. Stoudt... [et al.] -- A part and apart: students of color negotiating boundaries at an elite boarding school / Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández and Raygine DiAquoi -- Stepping outside class: affluent students resisting privilege / Adam Howard -- Getting in: how elite schools play the college game / Shamus Rahman Kahn -- The effects of parents' college tier on their offspring's educational attainments / Joseph Soares -- Class dismissed?: the social-class worldviews of privileged college students / Jenny M. Stuber -- Pageantry, pedagogy, and Pandorea: literacies of the Southern belle / June Newman-Graham -- On not seeming like you want anything: privileged girls' dilemmas of ambition and selflessness / Beth Cooper Benjamin -- Conclusion: outlining a research agenda on elite education / Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández and Adam Howard
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FIEb17508496
Dimensions
23 cm.
Extent
xii, 214 pages
Isbn
9781607094593
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unmediated
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rdamedia.
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  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)613645569
Label
Educating elites : class privilege and educational advantage, edited by Adam Howard and Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier.
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent.
Contents
Introduction: why study up? / Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández and Adam Howard -- Preparing for power: twenty-five years later / Peter W. Cookson Jr. and Caroline Hodges Persell -- Educating for hegemony-researching for change: collaborating with teachers and students to examine bullying at an elite private school / Brett G. Stoudt... [et al.] -- A part and apart: students of color negotiating boundaries at an elite boarding school / Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández and Raygine DiAquoi -- Stepping outside class: affluent students resisting privilege / Adam Howard -- Getting in: how elite schools play the college game / Shamus Rahman Kahn -- The effects of parents' college tier on their offspring's educational attainments / Joseph Soares -- Class dismissed?: the social-class worldviews of privileged college students / Jenny M. Stuber -- Pageantry, pedagogy, and Pandorea: literacies of the Southern belle / June Newman-Graham -- On not seeming like you want anything: privileged girls' dilemmas of ambition and selflessness / Beth Cooper Benjamin -- Conclusion: outlining a research agenda on elite education / Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández and Adam Howard
Control code
FIEb17508496
Dimensions
23 cm.
Extent
xii, 214 pages
Isbn
9781607094593
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia.
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)613645569

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