Educating Elites - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Educating Elites write by Adam Howard. This book was released on 2010. Educating Elites available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The gaze of educational researchers has traditionally been turned 'down' toward the experiences of communities deemed at-risk, presumably with the purpose of improving their plight. Indeed, theorizing about the relationship between education, culture, and society has typically emerged from the study of poor and marginalized groups in public schools. Seldom have educational researchers considered class privilege and educational advantage in their attempts at understanding inequality and fomenting social justice. This collection of groundbreaking studies breaks with this tradition by shifting the gaze of inquiry 'up, ' toward the experiences of privilege in educational environments characterized by wealth and the abundance of material resources. This edited volume brings together established and emerging scholars in education and the social sciences working critically to interrogate a diversity of educational environments serving the interests of influential groups both within and beyond schools. The authors investigate the power relations that underlie various contexts of class privilege. They shed light into the ways in which the success of a few relates to the failure of many --
Educating Activist Allies
Educating Activist Allies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Educating Activist Allies write by Katy M. Swalwell. This book was released on 2013-09-02. Educating Activist Allies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2013! Educating Activist Allies offers a fresh take on critical education studies through an analysis of social justice pedagogy in schools serving communities privileged by race and class. By documenting the practices of socially committed teachers at an urban private academy and a suburban public school, Katy Swalwell helps educators and educational theorists better understand the challenges and opportunities inherent in this work. She also examines how students responded to their teachers’ efforts in ways that both undermined and realized the goals of social justice pedagogy. This analysis serves as the foundation for the development of a curricular framework helping students to foster an "Activist Ally" identity: the skills, knowledge, and dispositions necessary to negotiate privilege in ways that promote justice. Educating Activist Allies provides a powerful introduction to the ways in which social justice curricula can and should be enacted in communities of privilege.
Creating a Class
Creating a Class - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Creating a Class write by Mitchell L Stevens. This book was released on 2009-06-30. Creating a Class available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In real life, Stevens is a professor at Stanford University. But for a year and a half, he worked in the admissions office of a bucolic New England college known for its high academic standards, beautiful campus, and social conscience. Ambitious high schoolers and savvy guidance counselors know that admission here is highly competitive. But creating classes, Stevens finds, is a lot more complicated than most people imagine.
Excellent Sheep
Excellent Sheep - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Excellent Sheep write by William Deresiewicz. This book was released on 2014-08-19. Excellent Sheep available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Deresiewicz takes a sharp look at the high-pressure conveyor belt that begins with demands for perfect grades and culminates in the skewed applications received by college admissions committees. Students are losing the ability to think independently. College is supposed to be a time for self-discovery-- but the system is broken, and he offers solutions on how to fix it.
Corporate Elites and the Reform of Public Education
Corporate Elites and the Reform of Public Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Corporate Elites and the Reform of Public Education write by Gunter, Helen M.. This book was released on 2017-03-08. Corporate Elites and the Reform of Public Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Just what is the role and impact of corporate elites in contemporary reforms of public sector universities and schools? Providing fresh perspectives on matters of governance and vibrant case studies on the particular types of provision including curriculum, teaching and professional practices, Gunter, Hall and Apple bring together contributions from Argentina, Australia, England, Indonesia, Singapore and US to reveal how corporate elites are increasingly influencing public education policy, provision and service delivery locally, nationally and across the world. Leading scholars, including Patricia Burch, Tanya Fitzgerald, Ken Saltman, and John Smyth scrutinise the impact elites are having on opportunity, access and outcomes through political and professional networks and organisations.
