Class and the College Classroom
Essays on Teaching
Published on 24. October 2013
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-1-62356-320-2 (ISBN)
Description
We have long been encouraged to look to education, especially higher education, for the solution to social problems, particularly as a way out of poverty for the talented and the hard working. But in its appointed role as the path to upward mobility that makes inequality more acceptable, higher education is faltering these days. As funds for public institutions are cut and tuition costs soar everywhere; as for-profit education races into the breach; and as student debt grows wildly; the comfortable future once promised to those willing to study hard has begun to fade from sight.
So now is a good time to take a more serious look at the ways class structures higher education and the ways teachers can bring it into focus in the classroom. In recent decades, scholarly work and pedagogical practice in higher education have paid increasing attention to issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality.But among these four terms of analysis -- and clearly they are interrelated -- class is often an afterthought, and work that does examine class and higher education tends to focus only on admissions, on who is in the college classroom, not on what happens there.
Class and the College Classroom offers a broader look at the connections between college teaching and social class. It collects and reprints twenty essays originally published in Radical Teacher, a journal that has been a leader in the field of critical pedagogy since 1975. This wide-ranging and insightful volume addresses the interests, concerns, and pedagogical needs of teachers committed to social justice and provides them with new tools for thinking and teaching about class.
So now is a good time to take a more serious look at the ways class structures higher education and the ways teachers can bring it into focus in the classroom. In recent decades, scholarly work and pedagogical practice in higher education have paid increasing attention to issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality.But among these four terms of analysis -- and clearly they are interrelated -- class is often an afterthought, and work that does examine class and higher education tends to focus only on admissions, on who is in the college classroom, not on what happens there.
Class and the College Classroom offers a broader look at the connections between college teaching and social class. It collects and reprints twenty essays originally published in Radical Teacher, a journal that has been a leader in the field of critical pedagogy since 1975. This wide-ranging and insightful volume addresses the interests, concerns, and pedagogical needs of teachers committed to social justice and provides them with new tools for thinking and teaching about class.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
496 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62356-320-2 (9781623563202)
DOI
CBID177754
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Person
Robert C. Rosen is Professor of English at William Paterson University, US. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Radical Teacher.
Content
Introduction
by Robert C. Rosen
I. What Is Class?
Is Class an Identity?
by Richard Ohmann
II. Who Gets To Be in the Classroom
A Dream Deferred: Undocumented Students at CUNY
by Carolina Bank Munoz
Last In and First Out: Poor Students in Academe in Times of Fiscal Crisis
by Vivyan Adair
Welfare "Reform" and One Community College
by Susan Jhirad
Teaching Freire and CUNY Open Admissions
by Kristen Gallagher
III. Class and the Working Teacher
A Teaching Temp Talks Back
by Michelle LaPlace
Instruction
by Kat Meads
Contingent Teaching, Corporate Universities, and the Academic Labor Movement
by Joseph Entin
Anti-Intellectualism, Homophobia, and the Working-Class Gay/Lesbian Academic
by Carlos L. Dews and Carolyn Leste Law
IV. Students' Class and Classroom Dynamics
Stories Out of School: Poor and Working-Class Students at a Small Liberal Arts College
by Laurie Nisonoff, Susan J. Tracy, and Stanley Warner
Class Privilege, Oppression, and the World in the Classroom
by Erin Smith
Enforcing the Rules
by Taylor Stoehr
Upward Mobility and Higher Education: Mining the Contradictions in a Worker Education Program
By Emily Schnee
V. Teaching About Class in the Humanities
Working-Class Cultural Studies in the University
by Lawrence Hanley
All That Hollywood Allows: Film and the Working Class
by Linda Dittmar
Canon Contexts and Class Contexts: Teaching American Literature from a Market Perspective
by Janet Galligani Casey
Teaching Howards End to the Basts: Class Markers in the Classroom and in the Bourgeois Novel
by Ed Wiltse
VI. Teaching About Class Across the Campus
Empathy Education: Teaching About Women and Poverty in the Introductory Women's Studies Classroom
by Jennifer Scanlon
Teaching an Interdisciplinary Course on the American Upper Class
by Richie Zweigenhaft
Teaching About Class in the Library
by Emily Drabinski
BibliographyIndex
by Robert C. Rosen
I. What Is Class?
Is Class an Identity?
by Richard Ohmann
II. Who Gets To Be in the Classroom
A Dream Deferred: Undocumented Students at CUNY
by Carolina Bank Munoz
Last In and First Out: Poor Students in Academe in Times of Fiscal Crisis
by Vivyan Adair
Welfare "Reform" and One Community College
by Susan Jhirad
Teaching Freire and CUNY Open Admissions
by Kristen Gallagher
III. Class and the Working Teacher
A Teaching Temp Talks Back
by Michelle LaPlace
Instruction
by Kat Meads
Contingent Teaching, Corporate Universities, and the Academic Labor Movement
by Joseph Entin
Anti-Intellectualism, Homophobia, and the Working-Class Gay/Lesbian Academic
by Carlos L. Dews and Carolyn Leste Law
IV. Students' Class and Classroom Dynamics
Stories Out of School: Poor and Working-Class Students at a Small Liberal Arts College
by Laurie Nisonoff, Susan J. Tracy, and Stanley Warner
Class Privilege, Oppression, and the World in the Classroom
by Erin Smith
Enforcing the Rules
by Taylor Stoehr
Upward Mobility and Higher Education: Mining the Contradictions in a Worker Education Program
By Emily Schnee
V. Teaching About Class in the Humanities
Working-Class Cultural Studies in the University
by Lawrence Hanley
All That Hollywood Allows: Film and the Working Class
by Linda Dittmar
Canon Contexts and Class Contexts: Teaching American Literature from a Market Perspective
by Janet Galligani Casey
Teaching Howards End to the Basts: Class Markers in the Classroom and in the Bourgeois Novel
by Ed Wiltse
VI. Teaching About Class Across the Campus
Empathy Education: Teaching About Women and Poverty in the Introductory Women's Studies Classroom
by Jennifer Scanlon
Teaching an Interdisciplinary Course on the American Upper Class
by Richie Zweigenhaft
Teaching About Class in the Library
by Emily Drabinski
BibliographyIndex