Negotiating Opportunities: How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School
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In Negotiating Opportunities, Jessica McCrory Calarco argues that the middle class has a negotiated advantage in school. Drawing on five years of ethnographic fieldwork, Calarco traces that negotiated advantage from its origins at home to its consequences at school. Through their parents' coaching, working-class students learn to follow rules and work through problems independently. Middle-class students learn to challenge rules and request assistance,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0190634448
ISBN13:9780190634445
Release Date:March 2018
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:272 Pages
Weight:0.25 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"
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