Class background shapes whether students believe their voices deserve academic respect

Evidence

In the privileged liberal arts colleges, it is acceptable for professors to respect the “voice” of any student who wants to make a point. Many students in those institutions feel they are entitled— that their voices deserve to be heard. But students in public institutions, mostly from working-class backgrounds, come to college assuming that professors see them as having nothing of value to say, no valuable contribution to make to a dialectical exchange of ideas. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 285

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Students treat the teacher’s validation as the measure of peer speech — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 290; Textbook dependence structurally silences non-dominant voices in classrooms — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 598; A school’s social character comes from perpetuating a group’s class function (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Working-class representation traps the speaker in an assigned social place #corroborates (0.78) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1101
• Downward and intraclass comparisons protect the self-esteem of low-status groups #corroborates (0.77)
• Classroom decorum rules covertly enforce bourgeois values on working-class students #corroborates (0.76) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 353
• Textbook dependence structurally silences non-dominant voices in classrooms #expands (0.74) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 598
• Structural classroom hierarchy predates any student choice to invoke identity #corroborates (0.74) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 169
• Students treat the teacher’s validation as the measure of peer speech #expands (0.72) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 290
• Redefining success as occupational merit denies class status’s self-esteem threat #qualifies (0.72) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2169
• A school’s social character comes from perpetuating a group’s class function #qualifies (0.70)