Social Class and School Knowledge

Social Class and School Knowledge Jean Anyon

Curriculuar similarities across schools (same textbooks)

epmirical evidence reifies 

seemed to be trying to guess what it was I wanted them to say rather than to reflect on their own experience. resistance as a dominant theme

Mann Quote"Knowledge is a possession of which man cannot be robbed.” funny with respect to Bordieu Dominant themes: resistance, possibility, narcissism Where is knowledge commodified (where does it have exchange value?)33-34 Which students are taught their history

While class con-

sciousness among the working classes is likely to be nonreproductive, such a consciousness among the capitalist class is, of course, likely to increase their efforts to win conflicts, to conserve culture, and to maintain their social position, **elite emphasis on ideological security **