Comments on: Blue Collar Scholars http://educationandclass.com/2007/11/19/blue-collar-scholars/ Exploring the intersections of social class, education and identity Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:39:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Shari http://educationandclass.com/2007/11/19/blue-collar-scholars/comment-page-1/#comment-1729 Fri, 16 Apr 2010 03:32:08 +0000 http://educationandclass.com/2007/11/19/blue-collar-scholars/#comment-1729 I wish that my colleagues knew about the experience their working class students face. But most of my colleagues are middle or uppper class–and I’m at a community college. None paid for their own education… and certainly not by the sweat of their own wages. My college, like many, has an office to support first-time college students. These support systems seem to be in place because most professors do NOT have the same experience as their student population. I suspect that those of us who do have some of the same experience as our students bring something valuable to the table. Maybe.

]]> By: johnochwat http://educationandclass.com/2007/11/19/blue-collar-scholars/comment-page-1/#comment-418 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 23:33:52 +0000 http://educationandclass.com/2007/11/19/blue-collar-scholars/#comment-418 To answer your last question: No.

I did research on this subject in high school, and one of the things that came out of it was that college is the ultimate indoctrination into the guild of middle-class values.

And middle-class values are such the de facto presumption, that working-class kids seem like deviations from the norm … and unless someone spells out these differences, even highly educated faculty are going to wonder why these kids just don’t “get it,” when that’s not the problem.

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