Learning Privilege: Lessons of Power and Identity in Affluent Schooling - Softcover

Howard, Adam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415960827 ISBN 13: 9780415960823

Publisher: Routledge, 2007

Synopsis

How can teachers bridge the gap between their commitments to social justice and their day to day practice? This is the question author Adam Howard asked as he began teaching at an elite private school and the question that led him to conduct a six-year study on affluent schooling. Unfamiliar with the educational landscape of privilege and abundance, he began exploring the burning 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 who they are.

Grounded in an extensive ethnographic account, Learning Privilege 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 illustrates the ways that affluent students construct their own privilege,not, fundamentally, as what they have, but, rather, as who they are.

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About the Author

Adam Howard is Associate Professor of Education at Hanover College and holds a position on the national faculty of Lesley University Graduate School of Education. He is a former private school teacher and director of a nonprofit organization. He has published numerous articles and papers on social class issues in education, privilege, service-learning, and curriculum theory.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415960827
• ISBN 13: 9780415960823
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 290