You have strengths
You have the right to an education
Acknowledgements
You should take this easier class.
You're not ready for university. Just go to community college.
University is great for you!
You're going to do so well at Davis, Cal, East Bay...
the game of college
Beginnings of today's school system
Dominant Narrative
Go to school, get a job
Have 2.1 kids
Do it yourself, be independent
I suffer from short term memory loss
Me after going to a wack ass class
Social Reproduction
How the education system reproduces class: rich, middle class, poor (Bordieu, 1973)
In different neighborhoods, students are taught differently (Anyon, 1980)
You should take this easier class.
You're not ready for university. Just go to community college.
University is great for you!
You're going to do so well at Davis, Cal, East Bay...
Somebody gotta work at
College was created
for upper, middle class students. To learn the game of college is to learn how these students do school (Delpit, 1988)
It can be done
without losing your identity, who you are, where you come from (Ladson-Billings, 1995)
My story
The game of college
1. Networking
Game of College
2. Use resources
Game of college
3. Managing the haters
You have strengths
You have the right to an education
Acknowledgements
What's
Your
Why?
References
- Anyon, J. (1981). Social class and school knowledge. Curriculum inquiry,11(1), 3-42.
- Bourdieu, P. (2003). SOCIAL REPRODUCTION. Culture: Critical Concepts in Sociology, 3, 63.
- Delpit, L. (1988). The silenced dialogue: Power and pedagogy in educating other people's children. Harvard educational review, 58(3), 280-299.
- Ladson-Billings, G. (1995). Toward a theory of culturally relevant pedagogy.American educational research journal, 32(3), 465-491.
Contact
Vanson Nguyen
Vanson Nguyen
(not Vanson P. Nguyen)
@vansonian
vansonnguyen@peralta.edu
DCAC, Chabot College keynote
By Vanson Nguyen
