How can teachers bridge the gap between their commitments to social
justice and their day-to-day practice? This is the question that
author Adam Howard asked as he began teaching at an elite private
school. Unfamiliar with the educational landscape of privilege and
abundance, he began exploring the 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 how they
see themselves.
Grounded in an extensive ethnographic account of a six-year
study on affluent schooling, 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 breaks new ground in studies of social class and education by
illustrating 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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