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Educating elites, class privilege and educational advantage, edited by Adam Howard and Rubâen A. Gaztambide-Fernâandez

eng

Includes bibliographical references

no index present

non fiction

Educating elites

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edited by Adam Howard and Rubâen A. Gaztambide-Fernâandez

class privilege and educational advantage

From the publisher. 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

Introduction: why study up? / Rubâen A. Gaztambide-Fernâandez 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 / Rubâen A. Gaztambide-Fernâandez 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 / Rubâen A. Gaztambide-Fernâandez and Adam Howard