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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Introduction: Why Study Up? Chapter 3 Preparing for Power: Twenty-Five Years Later Chapter 4 Educating for Hegemony, Researching for Change: Collaborating with Teachers and Students to Examine Bullying at an Elite Private School Chapter 5 A Part and Apart: Students of Color Negotiating Boundaries at an Elite Boarding School Chapter 6 Stepping Outside Class: Affluent Students Resisting Privilege Chapter 7 Getting In: How Elite Schools Play the College Game Chapter 8 The Effects of Parents' College Tier on Offspring's Educational Attainments Chapter 9 Class Dismissed?: The Social Class Worldviews of Privileged College Students Chapter 10 Pageantry, Pedagogy, and Pandorea: Literacies of the Southern Belle Chapter 11 On Not Seeming Like You Want Anything: Privileged Girls' Dilemmas of Ambition and Selflessness Chapter 12 Outlining a Research Agenda on Elite Education...
