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Title Educating elites : class privilege and educational advantage / edited by Adam Howard and Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández.

Publication Info. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, [2010]
©2010
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 214 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Foreword; Ch01. Introduction: Why Study Up?; Ch02. Preparing for Power: Twenty-Five Years Later; Ch03. Educating for Hegemony, Researching for Change: Collaborating with Teachers and Students to Examine Bullying at an Elite Private School; Ch04. A Part and Apart: Students of Color Negotiating Boundaries at an Elite Boarding School; Ch05. Stepping Outside Class: Affluent Students Resisting Privilege; Ch06. Getting In: How Elite Schools Play the College Game; Ch07. The Effects of Parents' College Tier on Their Offspring's Educational Attainments.
Summary 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.
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Subject Elite (Social sciences) -- Education -- United States.
Elite (Social sciences) -- Education.
United States.
Elite (Social sciences)
Upper class -- Education -- United States.
Upper class -- Education.
Boarding schools -- United States.
Boarding schools.
Universities and colleges -- United States -- Admission.
Universities and colleges.
Education, Higher -- United States.
Education, Higher.
Social status -- United States.
Social status.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Howard, Adam.
Gaztambide-Fernandez, Rubén A., 1971-
Other Form: Print version: Educating elites. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, ©2010 9781607094586 (DLC) 2010017689 (OCoLC)613645569
ISBN 9781607094609 (electronic book)
1607094606 (electronic book)
9781607094586
1607094584
9781607094593
1607094592

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