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Katy Swalwell

Katy Swalwell

About Katy Swalwell

Katy Swalwell is an assistant professor of education at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of Educating Activist Allies: Social Justice Pedagogy with the Suburban and Urban Elite (Routledge, 2013) and a research fellow at the Zinn Education Project.

Summertime and the livin’ is (not always) easy

September 7, 2014 by Katy Swalwell 1 Comment

In many classrooms across the country this fall, students will be asked to respond to the age-old prompt, “What did you do on your summer vacation?” Though often used as a well-meaning way for teachers to build community and to better get to know their students, such a question can surface deep classist assumptions that […]

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

Holiday charity or year-round compassion?

December 23, 2013 by Katy Swalwell Leave a Comment

‘Tis the season to be surrounded with warm fuzzy news stories about people volunteering at food banks or participating in clothing drives or raising money for non-profit groups. When a reporter for a nearby wealthy suburban newspaper called me this morning for my “expert opinion” about how to teach children a “sense of charity,” I […]

Filed Under: Classism among Kids, Classism in Everyday Life, Philanthropy and Classism

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