- Author
- Rosen, Robert C.
- ISBN
- 9781623564773
- Table of Contents
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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One - What Is Class?

ch. 1 Is Class an Identity?

Part Two - Who Gets To Be in the Classroom

ch. 2 A Dream Deferred: Undocumented Students at CUNY

ch. 3 Last In and First Out: Poor Students in Academe in Times of Fiscal Crisis

ch. 4 Welfare "Reform" and One Community College

ch. 5 Teaching Freire and CUNY Open Admissions

Part Three - Class and the Working Teacher

ch. 6 A Teaching Temp Talks Back

ch. 7 Instruction

ch. 8 Contingent Teaching, Corporate Universities, and the Academic Labor Movement

ch. 9 Anti-Intellectualism, Homophobia, and the Working-Class Gay/Lesbian Academic

Part Four - Students’ Class and Classroom Dynamics

ch. 10 Stories Out of School: Poor and Working-Class Students at a Small Liberal Arts College

ch. 11 Class Privilege, Oppression, and the World in the Classroom

ch. 12 Enforcing the Rules
ch. 13 Upward Mobility and Higher Education: Mining the Contradictions in a Worker Education Program

Part Five - Teaching About Class in the Humanities

ch. 14 Working-Class Cultural Studies in the University

ch. 15 All That Hollywood Allows: Film and the Working Class

ch. 16 Canon Contexts and Class Contexts: Teaching American Literature from a Market Perspective

ch. 17 Teaching Howards End to the Basts: Class Markers in the Classroom and in the Bourgeois Novel

Part Six - Teaching About Class Across the Campus

ch. 18 Empathy Education: Teaching About Women and Poverty in the Introductory Women's Studies Classroom

ch. 19 Teaching an Interdisciplinary Course on the American Upper Class

ch. 20 Teaching About Class in the Library

PostScript

Contributors

Index
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Abstract: 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. (From the Publisher)
Abstract: 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. (From the Publisher)