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How the Middle Class Negotiates and Justifies School Advantage
Routledge
March 2003
On Sale: March 1, 2003
264 pages ISBN: 041593298X EAN: 9780415932981 Paperback
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Non-Fiction
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 and aspirations
and consider the 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 Indiana 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 organizing category in education are
critically examined.
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