Dividing Classes - How the Middle Class Negotiates and Rationalizes School Advantage (Hardcover)

Dividing Classes offers a first-hand ethnographic account to examine the relationship between social class structures and educational success. Instead of studying the historically marginalized lower classes, this book asserts the need to look beyond poor peoples' values of dominant groups to explain the reproduction of social class. Drawing on interviews with 31 administrators, principals, and teachers and 20 middle class mothers in a small Indian town in which the author lives, Ellen Brantlinger discovers the considerable power the middle class wields in determining school policy and practice to secure educational advantages for their children. With the insight gained from this perspective, the roots of increasingly conservative educational policy and the idea of class as an organising category in education are critically examined.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2003
First published:	2003
Authors:	Ellen Brantlinger
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	262
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-93297-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Philosophy of education Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Social classes > General Promotions
LSN:	0-415-93297-1
Barcode:	9780415932974

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