Learning Privilege: Lessons of Power and Identity in Affluent Schooling

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How can teachers bridge the gap between their commitments to social justice and their day to day practice? This is the question author Adam Howard asked as he began teaching at an elite� private school and the question that led him to conduct a six-year study on affluent schooling. Unfamiliar with the educational landscape of privilege and abundance, he began exploring the burning questions he had as a teacher on the lessons affluent students are taught in schooling about their place in the world, their relationships with others, and who they are.

Grounded in an extensive ethnographic account, Learning Privilege examines the concept of privilege itself and the cultural and social processes in schooling that reinforce and regenerate privilege. Howard explores what educators, students and families at elite schools value most in education and how these values guide ways of knowing and doing that both create high standards for their educational programs and reinforce privilege as a collective identity. This book illustrates the ways that affluent students construct their own privilege,not, fundamentally, as what they have, but, rather, as who they are.

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Raised in Appalachian poverty, Adam Howard found himself a teacher at a private high school serving mainly wealthy students. As an outsider within, Howard became interested in studying how "privilege" was taught in affluent schools. Using the tools of an educator/ethnologist, Howard spent time observing classrooms in three elite independent schools and a public high school located in an affluent small town.

In "Learning Privilege", Howard delves deep into the non-curricular lessons taught at these schools. His interest is on how an identity is created and reproduced. In some insightful chapters, Howard looks into such varied topics as the role of trust, the honoring of tradition and how the privileged see the non-privileged. With his easy access to this affluent world, Howard takes his readers into places most of us will never experience.

As an "outsider within", Howard is ultimately critical of the values taught in these affluent schools. "Learning Privilege" is well written ethnography geared towards an academic market. Nevertheless, I think this an excellent book for both teachers and administrators who work in independent schools. For the parent patient enough to deal with Howard's academic approach, "Learning Privilege" offers unique insights into the world of independent schooling. Recommended.

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