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Social Class and School Knowledge

Social Class and School Knowledge. Jean Anyon. ‘Working Class Schools’ ( blue collar schools ). family incomes at or below $12,000 unskilled/semiskilled occupations. ‘Working Class Schools’ ( blue collar schools ).

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Social Class and School Knowledge

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  1. Social Class and School Knowledge Jean Anyon

  2. ‘Working Class Schools’(blue collar schools) • family incomes at or below $12,000 • unskilled/semiskilled occupations

  3. ‘Working Class Schools’(blue collar schools) • emphasis in curriculum and in classrooms on mechanical behaviors, as opposed to sustained conception • students gave evidence that they had already rejected the ideals of patriotism and equal chances for themselves.

  4. ‘Middle Class Schools’(light blue collar schools) • family incomes between $13,000 and $25,000 • highly skilled, well-paid blue collar and white collar occupations

  5. ‘Middle Class Schools’(light blue collar schools) • school knowledge is highly commodified • students had the highest degree of mystification and ideological internalization

  6. ‘Affluent Professional Schools’(white coat schools) • family incomes between $40,000 and $80,000 • highly-paid doctors, advertising executives, interior designers, etc.

  7. ‘Affluent Professional Schools’(white coat schools) • students were taught that the power of their own group is legitimate • emphasis on individual development • active use of concepts and ideas by students

  8. ‘Executive Elite Schools’(Armani suit schools) • family incomes over $100,000 • vice presidents or more advanced corporate executives

  9. ‘Executive Elite Schools’(Armani suit schools) • students were told importance of controlling ideas and given some insight into controlling their own • students were given analytical and unsentimental insight into the system

  10. Conclusion! - “The most important implication of the study is that for those of us who are working to transform society, there is much to do, at all levels, in education” (Anyon).

  11. Jean Anyon • parents were both labor organizers and imbedded the passion for social justice at an early age • taught elementary in inner-city schools in Washington, D.C. • received her PhD and then taught in the Teacher Education Department at Rutgers University

  12. Jean Anyon • is the author of three novels + Ghetto Schooling: A Political Economy of Urban Educational Reform + Radical Possibilities + Theory and Educational Research: Toward Critical Social Explanation.

  13. Works Cited Anyon, Jean. Radical Possibilities. New York: Routledge, 2005. Anyon, Jean. "Social Class and School Knowledge." Muticultural Education (2008): 146-151.

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