Comments on: It’s Not about Class, It’s About the Collars We Wear to Work http://educationandclass.com/2008/05/01/157/ Exploring the intersections of social class, education and identity Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:41:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: janevangalen http://educationandclass.com/2008/05/01/157/comment-page-1/#comment-571 janevangalen Sat, 03 May 2008 13:33:54 +0000 http://janevangalen.wordpress.com/?p=157#comment-571 Hello Jeanne, That's really true. I'm teaching a class on class now, and the students -- all seniors or grad students -- are somewhat stunned to realize that this is the first time in their formal education that they've ever talked about any of this. They're educators or educator wanna bes, charged with leveling playing fields through formal schooling, and they've essentially had nothing to tell kids beyond "work hard and you'll make it", even while any of number of them were uneasy with that. So there's the popular perception, and then there's the silence in education (at least outside sociology courses in stratification, maybe) that leaves those assumptions in place. At least in Great Britain they can talk about it. Hello Jeanne,

That’s really true. I’m teaching a class on class now, and the students — all seniors or grad students — are somewhat stunned to realize that this is the first time in their formal education that they’ve ever talked about any of this. They’re educators or educator wanna bes, charged with leveling playing fields through formal schooling, and they’ve essentially had nothing to tell kids beyond “work hard and you’ll make it”, even while any of number of them were uneasy with that.

So there’s the popular perception, and then there’s the silence in education (at least outside sociology courses in stratification, maybe) that leaves those assumptions in place.

At least in Great Britain they can talk about it.

]]> By: Jeanne http://educationandclass.com/2008/05/01/157/comment-page-1/#comment-570 Jeanne Sat, 03 May 2008 05:12:44 +0000 http://janevangalen.wordpress.com/?p=157#comment-570 I also think it's hard to talk about class because most people, no matter their actual class status and their "collar," think of themselves as middle class. I also think it’s hard to talk about class because most people, no matter their actual class status and their “collar,” think of themselves as middle class.

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