Negotiating opportunities : how the middle class secures advantages in school / Jessica McCrory Calarco.
In Negotiating Opportunities, Jessica McCrory Calarco traces class differences in student behaviors from their origins at home to their consequences in school and demonstrates how complex interactions between children, parents, and teachers collectively contribute to classroom inequality. Drawing on...
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Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2018]
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Physical Description: | ix, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Format: | Book |
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In Negotiating Opportunities, Jessica McCrory Calarco traces class differences in student behaviors from their origins at home to their consequences in school and demonstrates how complex interactions between children, parents, and teachers collectively contribute to classroom inequality. Drawing on five years of ethnographic fieldwork, she reveals that middle-class students secure advantages over their working-class peers by requesting support in excess of what is fair or required and by persuading teachers to grant their requests. |
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Call Number: | LC213.2 .C35 2018 |
Bibliography Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-243) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780190634438 019063443X 0190634448 9780190634445 |