Teaching Working Class
Author | : Sherry Lee Linkon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1999 |
ISBN-10 | : UOM:39015046504372 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Download or read book Teaching Working Class written by Sherry Lee Linkon and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1970s, working-class individuals have made up an increasing proportion of students enrolled in institutions of higher education. At the same time, working-class studies has emerged as an academic discipline, updating a long tradition of scholarship on labour history and proletarian literature to include discussions of working-class culture, intersections of class with ethnicity, and studies of the representation of the working class in popular culture. These developments have generated ideas about teaching that incorporate both a sensitivity to the working-class roots of many students and the inclusion of course content informed by an awareness of class culture.