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Jane Van Galen

About Jane Van Galen

The Power of Storytelling

January 22, 2014 by Jane Van Galen Leave a Comment

I’ve long been interested in the complicated processes of crossing class barriers, especially when that crossing is navigated through success in school.  With British sociologist Diane Reay, I believe that we learn a great deal about class when we learn more about the experiences of “the ones who got away”. One way to learn more […]

Filed Under: Class in Higher Education, Classism, First Generation College Students, Teaching about class

The Dreams of Poor and Working-Class Students

May 14, 2012 by Jane Van Galen 2 Comments

I was half-listening to the radio last week when I heard an interviewer ask a question that made me pause in my work to listen.   “So”, the interviewer warmly asked, “You knew even as a small child that you wanted to be a concert cellist?”  “Oh yes”, the woman answered. “Since I was eight.” I’ve […]

Filed Under: Class in Higher Education, Classism among Kids, Classism in K-12 Education, First Generation College Students Tagged With: academia, classism, education, first generation college students, social capital, working class

Moving the Bar

June 27, 2011 by Jane Van Galen Leave a Comment

At first glance, I thought that  it was just  another article about disappointing test scores. I almost didn’t click through to read it, in part because I spend so much time in my teacher education courses trying to contextualize the rhetoric about “the achievement gap” and testing and my students’ role as teachers in closing […]

Filed Under: Classism in K-12 Education, Classism in the Economy, Politics and Class Tagged With: kids, poverty, public school, teachers unions

Class in the Classroom

December 28, 2010 by Jane Van Galen 1 Comment

There is a loud silence about social class in U.S. public schools. The silence was deafening on the first day of the course I recently taught — a course in which teachers look closely at how education in the United States is deeply entangled with social class. In this course, students look closely on their […]

Filed Under: Classism among Kids, Classism in K-12 Education Tagged With: classism, kids

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