Class and the college classroom
Subtitle: essays on teaching
By: edited by Robert C. Rosen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781623564773; 9781623563202; 9781623560638; 9781623560478
Subjects: Critical pedagogy; Higher Education; EDUCATION / Higher
Description: "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 has often been an afterthought. Several recent books have been about admissions, about who is in the college classroom, not about what goes on there; this is a good time for a book that takes a broader look at college teaching and social class.Class and the College Classroom collects and reprints (from the journal Radical Teacher) twenty essays that can help college teachers and others think about class. An Introduction explores larger questions of how class is experienced and viewed in US society generally. Two challenges facing those who would teach seriously about issues of class come immediately to mind: first, the widespread belief that just about everyone in the United States is "middle class," a way of thinking that masks the power and importance of class; and, second, the reality that most students who pursue higher education are doing so with an eye to rising in social class and are reluctant to entertain, for example, the possibility that lines between classes are less permeable than they might wish or think. And then, of course, there is the genuine complexity of defining just what "class" is. This is a wide-ranging and insightful collection of essays that will be helpful to all educators who wish to engage with this issue of teaching in the college classroom"--

"First up, this book is very US-focused. Most Schools/Depts of Education in the US have several faculty members whose research is focused purely on issues in Higher Education - this book is aimed squarely at them, and at the (smallish) graduate courses/seminars that they teach. There's a secondary, and somewhat amorphous, other readership for this book: faculty in higher education, those long established and those entering or (like adjuncts) on the margins, should find this book appealing and useful, definitely something they would urge their institutions' libraries to purchase if they can't spend the money themselves. Most colleges have faculty development workshops, reading circles, and other groups (usually well supported and funded by the administration) devoted to improving teaching, and a this book would be natural for these groups. In addition, colleges are increasingly teaching about college teaching in their graduate courses (which often supply adjunct faculty) and this could be an important text in such courses"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: AcknowledgmentsIntroductionI. What Is Class?Is Class an Identity? by Richard Ohmann II. Who Gets To Be in the Classroom A Dream Deferred: Undocumented Students at CUNY by Carolina Bank Muñoz Last In and First Out: Poor Students in Academe in Times of Fiscal Crisis by Vivyan Adair Welfare "Reform" and One Community College by Susan Jhirad Teaching Freire and CUNY Open Admissions by Kristen Gallagher III. Class and the Working TeacherA Teaching Temp Talks Back by Michelle LaPlace Instruction by Kat Meads Contingent Teaching, Corporate Universities, and the Academic Labor Movement by Joseph Entin Anti-Intellectualism, Homophobia, and the Working-Class Gay/Lesbian Academic by Carlos L. Dews and Carolyn Leste Law IV. Students' Class and Classroom DynamicsStories Out of School: Poor and Working-Class Students at a Small Liberal Arts College by Laurie Nisonoff, Susan J. Tracy, and Stanley Warner Class Privilege, Oppression, and the World in the Classroom by Erin Smith Enforcing the Rules by Taylor Stoehr Upward Mobility and Higher Education: Mining the Contradictions in a Worker Education Program by Emily Schnee V. Teaching About Class in the HumanitiesWorking-Class Cultural Studies in the University by Lawrence Hanley All That Hollywood Allows: Film and the Working Class by Linda Dittmar Canon Contexts and Class Contexts: Teaching American Literature from a Market Perspective by Janet Galligani CaseyTeaching Howards End to the Basts: Class Markers in the Classroom and in the Bourgeois Novel by Ed Wiltse VI. Teaching About Class Across the CampusEmpathy Education: Teaching About Women and Poverty in the Introductory Women's Studies Classroom by Jennifer Scanlon Teaching an Interdisciplinary Course on the American Upper Class by Richie Zweigenhaft Teaching About Class in the Library by Emily Drabinski PostScript Contributors Index.