Kindergartners’ Development of Privileged Subjectivities within an Elite School |
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| Authors: | Allison S. Henward Donna J. Grace |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Early Childhood Education in the Institute for Teacher Education, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA;2. Elementary Education in the Institute for Teacher Education, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA |
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| Abstract: | This case study investigates how kindergarten children thought and talked about their school in three socially stratified school settings: public, charter and private, and the extent to which they grasped sociocultural understandings related to social class. Data included field notes, interviews with the children and teachers, and parent surveys. A Bourdieuian lens illuminated emergent themes. Results indicate that children in the elite setting had developed sophisticated understandings of their privileged social locations and understood their position as distinct from other children. |
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| Keywords: | child development curriculum privilege social class subjectivities |
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