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Jessica McCrory Calarco - Negotiating Opportunities, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

Negotiating Opportunities

How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School

Av Jessica McCrory Calarco

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Beskrivning
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.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2018-04-05
  • Mått: 155 x 231 x 15 mm
  • Vikt: 386 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 272
  • Förlag: OUP USA
  • ISBN: 9780190634445
  • Utmärkelser: Winner of the 2020 Bourdieu Best Book Award Winner of the 2019 North Central Sociological Association's Scholarly Achievement Award
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Jessica McCrory Calarco is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Indiana University.

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The productiveness of Calarco's work in raising fundamental questions is clear. By highlighting the agency of young children in navigating ambiguous social interactions, Negotiating Opportunities should encourage us all to push for accounts of inequality that recognize that mobility projects often entail navigating structural contexts in the absence of clear rules or guidance.

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1 recensioner, genomsnitt 5/5

  1. 5/5 Bertil E

    Författarens analys visar på aspekter som såväl politiker och myndigheters tjänstemän som professionens representanter skulle ha nytta av att ta till. Människor är inga förprogrammerade maskiner, och just därför är de mycket beroende av det stöd de får från sina föräldrar.