Educating Elites: Class Privilege and Educational Advantage

by Adam Howard associate professor of education, Colby College; author of Learning Privile (Editor), Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández (Editor), Beth Cooper Benjamin (Contribution by), Peter W. Cookson Jr (Contribution by), Raygine DiAquoi (Contribution by)

Overview

This collection of groundbreaking studies breaks with the tradition of gauging inequality by looking 'down' at at-risk or poverty-disadvantaged schools and shifts the gaze of inquiry 'up' toward the experiences of privilege in educational environments characterized by wealth and the abundance of material resources.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781607094593
Publisher:	R&L Education
Publication date:	10/16/2010
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	220
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Adam Howard is an associate professor of education at Colby College. He is author of Learning Privilege: Lessons of Power and Identity in Affluent Schooling. RubZn A. Gaztambide-FernOndez is an assistant professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. He is author of The Best of the Best: Becoming Elite at an American Boarding School.

Table of Contents

Foreword Lois Weis v

1 Introduction: Why Study Up? Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández Adam Howard 1

2 Preparing for Power: Twenty-Five Years Later Peter W. Cookson Jr. Caroline Hodges Persell 13

3 Educating for Hegemony, Researching for Change: Collaborating with Teachers and Students to Examine Bullying at an Elite Private School Brett G. Stoudt Peter Kuriloff Michael C. Reichert Sharon M. Ravitch 31

4 A Part and Apart: Students of Color Negotiating Boundaries at an Elite Boarding School Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández Raygine DiAquoi 55

5 Stepping Outside Class: Affluent Students Resisting Privilege Adam Howard 79

6 Getting In: How Elite Schools Play the College Game Shamus Rahman Khan 97

7 The Effects of Parents' College Tier on Their Offspring's Educational Attainments Joseph A. Soares 113

8 Class Dismissed? The Social-Class Worldviews of Privileged College Students Jenny M. Stuber 131

9 Pageantry, Pedagogy, and Pandorea: Literacies of the Southern Belle June Newman-Graham 153

10 On Not Seeming Like You Want Anything: Privileged Girls' Dilemmas of Ambition and Selflessness Beth Cooper Benjamin 173

11 Conclusion: Outlining a Research Agenda on Elite Education Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández Adam Howard 195

About the Contributors 211

What People are Saying About This

Michael W. Apple

Class counts, and it counts in crucial ways in education. Adam Howard and Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández have provided us with a set of important and nuanced analyses of how elite class institutions and understandings work in a system that is riven with class relations. This is a significant book for anyone who cares about elitism in education in this society.

Mitchell L. Stevens

A great collection. Elite schooling is important not only because it defines the ladders others must climb to move up in the world, but also because it represents powerful families' best guess about the future their children will inherit. Educating Elites quickly will become required reading for any serious student of inequality in America.

Annette Lareau

A fresh and interesting collection that contains a number of pieces by talented young scholars....highly recommended.

Editorial Reviews

Class counts, and it counts in crucial ways in education. Adam Howard and Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández have provided us with a set of important and nuanced analyses of how elite class institutions and understandings work in a system that is riven with class relations. This is a significant book for anyone who cares about elitism in education in this society.

Michael W. Apple

A great collection. Elite schooling is important not only because it defines the ladders others must climb to move up in the world, but also because it represents powerful families' best guess about the future their children will inherit. Educating Elites quickly will become required reading for any serious student of inequality in America.

Mitchell L. Stevens

A fresh and interesting collection that contains a number of pieces by talented young scholars....highly recommended.

Annette Lareau