Equivalent on Paper, Unequal in Practice: An Ethnographic Study of Children's and Teachers' Experiences in Segregated Preschools
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Equivalent on Paper, Unequal in Practice: An Ethnographic Study of Children's and Teachers' Experiences in Segregated Preschools
Yazar:
Stockstill, Casey, author.
ISBN:
9780438080317
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1 electronic resource (133 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-11(E), Section: A.
Advisors: Mustafa Emirbayer Committee members: Alice Goffman; Posey-Maddox Linn; Myra Marx Ferree; Robert Nix.
Özet:
This dissertation analyzes preschools as sites of early socialization. I conducted a comparative ethnographic study at a Head Start center that served poor families of color and at a private preschool that served affluent, white families. My findings show how families' backgrounds and classroom conditions like teacher-student ratio affect teachers' and children's experiences. First, I analyze how teachers and peers socialize children for school behavior. For teachers to succeed in their socialization goals, they needed a low teacher-student ratio in practice. Second, I consider children's ability to predictably access objects in the classroom. I argue that differential access to material resources can produce classed dispositions that reinforce inequality. Finally, I consider how teachers' attempts to socialize children affect teachers' work experiences. I found that Head Start teachers faced extra job demands due to some of the stressors of poverty. As a whole, my dissertation shows how children, teachers, and classroom conditions together influence early socialization. Preschools provide important, but often segregated, early socialization experiences that can reinforce class and race inequality.
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School code: 0262
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