Researching the Impact of School: Reproducing Social Class Or Enabling Mobility?

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Despite the persistent narrative of the American Dream and our commitment to education’s role in mitigating inequality, qualitative research done in school settings has offered tremendous insight on how social class might be reproduced and the role that schools play in this process. This course actively investigates theories of social class and reproduction through the lens of ethnographies done in and about schools and supports students to conduct new research on how current attempts to support mobility fare.