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Negotiating Opportunities

By Calarco

Negotiating Opportunities

By Calarco

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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, accommodations, and attention in excess of what is fair or required. Teachers typically grant those requests, creating advantages for middle-class students. Calarco concludes with recommendations, advocating against deficit-oriented programs that teach middle-class behaviors to working-class students. Those programs ignore the value of working-class students' resourcefulness, respect, and responsibility, and they do little to prevent middle-class families from finding new opportunities to negotiate advantages in school.
Product details
Number of Pages:
268
Release Date:
2018-03-01
Publication Date:
2012-10-15
Publisher:
ACADEMIC
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
019063443X
ISBN13:
9780190634438
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
570 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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