Late to Class: Social Class and Schooling in the New Economy (Suny Series, Social Identity, and Education) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791470946 ISBN 13: 9780791470947

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2007

Synopsis

Looks at the educational experiences of poor, working class, and middle class students against the backdrop of complicated class stratification in a shifting global economy.

Winner of the 2007 Critics' Choice Award presented by the American Educational Studies Association

Late to Class presents theoretical, empirical, and pedagogical perspectives on social class and schooling in the United States. Grounding their analyses at the intersections of class, ethnicity, gender, geography, and schooling, the contributors examine the educational experiences of poor, working class, and middle class students against the backdrop of complicated class stratification in a shifting global economy. Together, they explore the salience of class in understanding the social, economic, and cultural landscapes within which young people in the United States come to understand the meaning of their formal education in times of changing opportunity.

About this title

About the Author

Jane A. Van Galen is Professor of Education at the University of Washington at Bothell and the coeditor (with Deborah Eaker-Rich) of Caring in an Unjust World: Negotiating Borders and Barriers in Schools, also published by SUNY Press. George W. Noblit is Joseph R. Neikirk Distinguished Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His many books include The Social Construction of Virtue: The Moral Life of Schools (coauthored with Van O. Dempsey), also published by SUNY Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791470946
• ISBN 13: 9780791470947
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 378
• Editor: Van Galen Jane A.