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Blue-Collar Scholars: Bridging Academic And Working-Class Worlds, Nathan Lee Hodges
Blue-Collar Scholars: Bridging Academic And Working-Class Worlds, Nathan Lee Hodges
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation explores one white working-class family’s hopes, fears, illusions, and tensions related to social mobility. I tell stories from my experiences as a first-generation college student, including: ethnographic fieldwork; interviews with my family, community members, and former teachers; and narratives from other working-class academics to provide an in-depth, evocative, and relational look at mobility. I explore the roots of vulnerability in my family and how I was socialized into understanding belonging and worthiness in particular ways, and how this socialization influences my feelings of belonging and worthiness in the academy. The goal of this research is bridging – past …
The Myth Of The Saving Power Of Education: A Practical Theology Approach, Hannah Kristine Adams Ingram
The Myth Of The Saving Power Of Education: A Practical Theology Approach, Hannah Kristine Adams Ingram
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
U.S. political discourse about education posits a salvific function for success in formal schooling, specifically the ability to "save" marginalized groups from poverty by lifting them into middle- class success. The link between education and salvation is grounded in the historic relationship between Christianity and the establishment of public education in the United States. Initially, churches invested in schooling to form a Christian society. Today, the public institutions of education operationalize the ideology of meritocracy and promise individual success in the economic realm. Discourse analysis of political speeches and charter school programs demonstrates that education primarily offers its salvation to …