Stephen L Muzzatti, Vincent C Samarco

Reflections from the Wrong Side of the Tracks

Class, Identity, and the Working Class Experience in Academe

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Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this collection challenge the predominant image of working class people in higher education by providing a series of analyses and personal commentaries from a wide range of working class academics. Reflections From the Wrong Side of the Tracks imparts a critical and substantial narrative about what it means to be from the working class and work in academe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 163mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9780742535114
• ISBN-10: 0742535118
• Artikelnr.: 21046578

Autorenporträt

By Stephen L. Muzzatti and Vincent C. Samarco - Contributions by Phyllis L. Baker; Jennifer Beech; Bonnie Berry; Julie Harms-Cannon; Lyn Huxford; David Kauzlarich; Donna Selman-Killingbeck; Donna LeCourt; William Macauley; Daniel D. Martin; Mike Presdee;

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Happy Accidents: the Unofficial Story of How I Became an Academic
Chapter 2 Working it Out Chapter 3 Personal, Professional, and Political
Paths to the Study of the Crimes of the Powerful Chapter 4 A Stranger to
Paradise: Working-Class Graduate in the Culture of Academia Chapter 5 Can a
Working-Class Girl Have Roots and Wings? White Trash in the Ivory Tower
Chapter 6 Working Class Need Not Apply: Job Hunting, Job Interviews, and
the Working-Class Experience in Academe Chapter 7 Making Class Matter: My
Life as a Semi-Earhole Chapter 8 White, Working Class, and Feminist:
Working Within The Master's House and Finding Home Again Chapter 9 "Gimme
That!": The Working-Class Student Meets the Working-Class Subject Chapter
10 Critique of Domination: The Pain, Praxis, and Polemics of Working-Class
Consciousness in Academia Chapter 11 Working-Class Values and Life in
Academe: Examining the Dissonance Chapter 12 Teaching from the Wrong Side
of the Tracks: Challenging Privilege and Authority In the Classroom Chapter
13 The Meaning of Class Differences in the Academic World Chapter 14
Trajectory and Transformation of a Working-Class Girl into an
Upper-Middle-Class Associate Dean Chapter 15 Making the Grade: Imposters in
the Ivory Tower Chapter 16 An Unwashed's Knowledge of Archaeolgy: Class and
Merit in Academic Placement Chapter 17 Class Enriching the Classroom: the
"Radical" as Rooted Pedagogic Strengths