Preparing for Power in Elite Boarding Schools and in Working-Class Schools
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4255508 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patrick J Finn, Patrick Finn (0000-0001-9607-7552, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 57-63 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-06 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theory Into Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-5841 • E-ISSN: 1527-2532 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00405841.2012.636339 |
| OpenAlex | W2157922334 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 29 |
Elite boarding schools endeavor to instill in their students elite-class solidarity, strong beliefs in both meritocracy and the essential rightness of the status quo, and practical political know-how. Each of these objectives is wholly compatible with the self-interest of their students and their families. In the vast majority of working-class schools, class-consciousness is discouraged, individual effort is valorized, and collective effort is denigrated; faith in meritocracy and the rightness of the status quo go unchallenged, and practical political know-how is replaced by a naive, Disneyland concept of American democracy. None of this is compatible with the self-interest of working-class students, and, therefore, they remain unmotivated and experience little school success. Weekend schools for children run by the American Socialist Party from 1900 to 1920 were based on assumptions compatible with working-class self-interest and offer a model for motivating and educating working-class students today
Class (philosophy · Class consciousness · Democracy · Elite · Epistemology · Faith · Meritocracy · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Public relations · Sociology · Solidarity · Status quo · Working class · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Law · Political theory and Gramsci · Psychology
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It's embarrassing to come here”
Boarding school attendance and mental health among Chinese adolescents
Ethos within the British boarding school
Boarding School, Academic Motivation and Engagement, and Psychological Well-Being
The Respectable Brotherhood
Keeping track
Creating a Class
Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy
Education and Power
The Best of the Best
What Is an Elite Boarding School?
Making of the English Working Class
Handbook of theory and research for the sociology of education
Learning to Labor
Learning to Labor in New Times
The Forms of Capital
Ideology and Curriculum
Ideology and Curriculum
Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work
Social Class and School Knowledge
Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture
Rationality, Education, and the Social Organization of Knowledge
"Schooling for "Good Rebels
Reproduction in education, society, and culture
Preparing for Power
Hegemony and Consciousness in the Thought of Antonio Gramsci
Orality and Literacy
Critical Literacy
Education for Struggle
| Citations per year | 0.58 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2024 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |