Whiteness and Class in Education

• Main Author: Preston, John (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Subjects: Education.; Educational sociology.; Higher education.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Sociology of Education.; Higher Education.

The critical study of whiteness has influenced anti-racist pedagogy and research. A volatile area of study, in terms of the re-centering of white discourses and the appropriation of the writings of black scholars, confronting whiteness has become a controversial but potentially radical way of approa...

Table of Contents:

• White Identities, Practices and Privileges in Education
• How the White Working Class Became ‘Chav’
• Class and Race Strategies in Adult Education
• Smells Like White Spirit
• Policy, Pedagogy and ‘White Supremacy’ in Education
• Take the Skinheads Bowling
• Homeland Insecurity
• Towards a ‘Trash Crit’
• Concluding Remarks
• From Troubling Whiteness to Treason to Whiteness
• From Troubling Whiteness to Treason to Whiteness.