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Children's Bodies in Schools: Corporeal Performances of Social Class (Hardcover)
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Children's Bodies in Schools: Corporeal Performances of Social Class (Hardcover)
Series: The Cultural and Social Foundations of Education
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How do teachers "read" children's body language, and what are the
consequences of these (mis)interpretations? Using Pierre Bourdieu's
work in the construction of social class, together with Annette
Lareau's work on how social class influences the child-rearing
practices of parents, Henry argues that children raised in
working-class homes come to elementary school with different,
largely underappreciated, corporeal capacities. The middle-class
corporeal practices of elementary school (hands to yourself, raise
your hand to speak, stay in straight lines) require working-class
children to adopt middle-class corporeal performances in order to
demonstrate that they have achieved self-control, a significant
mechanism by which some bodies are validated in society and
vilified in others. Henry argues that curricula aimed at helping
teachers teach poor children predisposes them to see poor
children's corporeal performance from deeply classed positions that
maintain cycles of social reproduction in schools rather than
interrupting them.
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