Move to the Head of the Class: Teacher Agency in Constructing Student Roles in a Rural Elementary School
Year: 2008
Type: article
Abstract: This ethnographic research studies the ways that teachers in a rural elementary school use social class indicators to understand the social class of their students.It focuses upon the importance of face-to-face interaction, and teacher perception, in this process.This research indicates that the teachers in this rural elementary school use their understanding of student social class to categorize students into either "quality student" roles or "deficient student" roles.Once categorized into these roles, students receive differential socialization patterns, and therefore differential advantages, based upon those roles, which ultimately reproduces existing social inequalities.
Author: Molly B. Bukky
Institution: Ohio University
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2280380685