Teaching Economic Inequality and Capitalism in Contemporary America [electronic resource] /
Haltinner, Kristin.editor.
Hormel, Leontina.editor.
This book discusses pedagogical solutions that enable students to see how capitalist processes and economic inequalities intersect and shape our assumptions and behaviours. The contributors provide thoughtful reflections on the struggles and opportunities instructors face in teaching about these topics while competing against the invisibility of capitalist forces and prevalent social myths, such as “anyone who works hard can achieve”. This book will not only help instructors empower students to recognize economic injustice and its interaction with capitalist organization, but also develops and acts on transformative solutions. Through analysis of the classed dimensions of the current political, economics, and cultural climate, as well as presenting novel lesson plans and classroom activities, this book is of great value for college and university professors.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
Part I: Making the Personal Political: The Stories of Capitalism.- Chapter 1. ‘Teaching Naked’ in Late Capitalism: Personal Narratives and Classroom Self-Disclosure as Pedagogical Tools -- Chapter 2. Untold Stories: Bringing Class into the Classroom.- Chapter 3. ‘Self-Made’ Success on the Private Dole: An Illustration of the Reproduction of Capitals.- Chapter 4. Financial Stumbles, Consumer Bankruptcy, and the Sociological Imagination.- Part II: Making Marxist Theory Real -- Chapter 5. Capitalism 101: Teaching First-Year Students How to View the Social World through the Lens of Marxist Theory.- Chapter 6. Teaching Global Inequality through the World of Commodities -- Chapter 7. Radical Pedagogical Homesteading: Returning the ‘Species’ to Our ‘Being’.- Chapter 8. Socialist Grading.- Part III: Applied Pedagogical Strategies for Course Development.- Chapter 9. Overcoming Students’ Fear: Scaffolding to Teach “Money and Society”.- Chapter 10. Capitalism in the Classroom: Confronting the Invisibility of Class Inequality.- Chapter 11. Experiencing the Outcomes of Economic Inequality in the Day-to-Day Workings of the Classroom.- Chapter 12. Teaching Economic Inequality and Capitalism in Contemporary America using Resources from the Federal Government.- Chapter 13. Teaching Social Inequality through Analysis of Hidden Assumptions in Non-Academic Publications -- Chapter 14. Participatory Action Research as Problem-Centered Learning: A class study of rural poverty, housing, and environmental justice.- Chapter 15. Inequality and Violence.- Part IV: Intersections: Global and Local.- Chapter 16. Intersectional Marginalities in Rural Teacher Preparation: Teaching beyond “what I am able to see visibly”.- Chapter 17. Economic Inequality and Race: Shifting the Narrative of “No, It can’t be that bad.- Chapter 18. Irreversible Punishment: Teaching about Inequalities in Capital Punishment.- Chapter 19. Making Room for a Postcolonial Critique in the Introductory STS Curriculum.- Chapter 20. Transnational Comparison as a Pedagogical Tool for Illuminating Economic Inequality in the United States.- Part V: Capitalism and Higher Education: Constraints and Opportunities.- Chapter 21. Capitalism and the Cost of Textbooks: the Possibilities of Open Source Materials.- Chapter 22. Writing Against Ideology: Preparing Students to Reclaim Writing as Critical Practice.- Chapter 23. Lessons on Inequality and Capitalism: Perspectives from a Community College.- Chapter 24. Capitalism, Racism, and the Neoliberal University: The Case of the University of Missouri (Mizzou).- Chapter 25. Against the “Institutional Real”: The Structural and Cultural Foundations of Corporate Higher Education and the Challenge to Developing Politically Engaged Students.
This book discusses pedagogical solutions that enable students to see how capitalist processes and economic inequalities intersect and shape our assumptions and behaviours. The contributors provide thoughtful reflections on the struggles and opportunities instructors face in teaching about these topics while competing against the invisibility of capitalist forces and prevalent social myths, such as “anyone who works hard can achieve”. This book will not only help instructors empower students to recognize economic injustice and its interaction with capitalist organization, but also develops and acts on transformative solutions. Through analysis of the classed dimensions of the current political, economics, and cultural climate, as well as presenting novel lesson plans and classroom activities, this book is of great value for college and university professors.
Economic policy.
Sociology.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
Sociology of Education.
Economic Policy.
Gender Studies.