Why Teach about Social Class?

Ira Shor

doi:10.58680/tetyc20054641

ISSN: 0098-6291
E-ISSN: 1943-2356

Why Teach about Social Class?
Author(s): Ira Shor
Source: Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Volume 33, Issue 2, Dec 2005, p. 161 - 170
DOI: https://doi.org/10.58680/tetyc20054641
- Published online: 01 Dec 2005

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Given the war that has been waged for several decades now against working students and their families, as well as against teachers, community college faculty are called upon to invent creative, local, and evolving knowledges of social class with their students.

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