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Poverty, Class, and Wealth
How Our Socioeconomic Status Shapes Our Education
Lisa Dowdall, J.P. Brichta, Alexander Rüthlein, and Meredith
Clarey
What is the same? What is different?
Agenda• The Rules of Society
– The Class-Consciousness Raiser – Paul Tough– Case Study: Who is to Assess? – Hare & Portelli
• The Limits of Schooling– What No School Can Do – James Traub
• The Hidden Curriculum– Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work –
Jean Anyon
• The Hidden Barriers: Language– Some Parents Just Don’t Care – Dory Lightfoot
The Rules of Society
Poverty Middle Class Wealth
Possessions People Things One-of-a-kind objects
Money To be used, spent To be managed Connections
Social Emphasis Inclusion of people who are liked
Self-governance and self-sufficiency
On exclusion
Food Did you have enough?
Did you like it? Was it presented well?
Time Focus on present Focus on future Traditions and history
Education Valued but abstract Crucial for success Making connections
World View Local National International
Love Conditional based on whether they are
liked
Based on achievement
Financial, political, social connections
The Limits of Schooling
• How to help poor students succeed?
• Government programs (Title I, Head Start, desegregation, No Child Left Behind)
• A lot of money; few positive results
• Focus is on changing school
• Little effort on changing what happens “on the outside”
• How can we take ownership?
The Hidden Curriculum
• It is suggested that there is a ‘hidden curriculum’ in school work that has a profound implication for theory – and practice – in education
• Acknowledgement of varying social statuses and using parental income or occupation to define them
• Schoolwork helps one to achieve, to excel, to prepare for life
The Hidden Barriers: LanguageParent Involvement”al“
can contribute to the classroomMiddle Class:
Lower Class: require help to raise their children
Problems: Generalizations Categorizations
Language shapes our perception of reality
We have to be aware of the hidden implications of the language we use!
Where do we go from here?
be aware of social class and its implications individualization instead of categorization provide opportunity and choice (empowerment) don't give up on students from low-class background
Schools alone will not be able to shoulder the burden, but they are an important pillar in
the efforts to lift lower classes through education
What can we (micro level) do to break the connection between low class and
inadequate education?
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