School-smart and Mother-wise

Working-Class Women's Identity and Schooling
1. Auflage 1997
ISBN: 978-0-415-91012-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 273 g

Reihe: Perspectives on Gender

School-smart and Mother-wise illustrates how and why American education disadvantages working-class women when they are children and adults. In it we hear working-class women--black and white, rural and urban, southern and northern--recount their childhood experiences, describing the circumstances that led them to drop out of school. Now enrolled in adult education programs, they seek more than a diploma: respect, recognition, and a public identity. Drawing upon the life stories of these women, Wendy Luttrell sensitively describes and analyzes the politics and psychodynamics that shape working-class life, schooling, and identity. She examines the paradox of women's education, particularly the relationship between schooling and mothering, and offers practical suggestions for school reform.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Luttrell, Wendy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Schulleitung, Schulentwicklung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter One Becoming Somebody; Chapter Two Stories from the Field; Chapter Three Schoolsmart and Motherwise; Chapter Four Childhood Ambitions; Chapter Five Storied Selves and School Mission; Chapter Six Teachers and I Their Pets; Chapter Seven Schools and Mothers; Chapter Eight The Push and Pull of School; Chapter Nine Lessons from the Women’s Stories;

Über Autor(innen)

at Duke University.