Educating Elites: Class Privilege and Educational Advantage - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1607094584 ISBN 13: 9781607094586

Publisher: R&L Education (UK), 2010

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Peter Kuriloff, Ed.D., is a psychologist and Professor of Education at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education. He the Research Director of The Center for the Study of Boys’ and Girls’ Lives (www.csbgl.org).

Edition details

• Publisher: R&L Education (UK)
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1607094584
• ISBN 13: 9781607094586
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 220
• Editor: Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández, Adam Howard