Negotiating Opportunities: How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School - Couverture souple

McCrory Calarco, Jessica

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ISBN 10 : 0190634448 ISBN 13 : 9780190634445

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2018

Synopsis

In Negotiating Opportunities, Jessica McCrory Calarco argues that the middle class has a negotiated advantage in school. Drawing on five years of ethnographic fieldwork, Calarco traces that negotiated advantage from its origins at home to its consequences at school. Through their parents' coaching, working-class students learn to follow rules and work through problems independently. Middle-class students learn to challenge rules and request assistance, accommodations, and attention in excess of what is fair or required. Teachers typically grant those requests, creating advantages for middle-class students. Calarco concludes with recommendations, advocating against deficit-oriented programs that teach middle-class behaviors to working-class students. Those programs ignore the value of working-class students' resourcefulness, respect, and responsibility, and they do little to prevent middle-class families from finding new opportunities to negotiate advantages in school.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jessica McCrory Calarco is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Indiana University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0190634448
• ISBN 13: 9780190634445
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
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• Personne responsable: non disponible