SCHOOLING
History & Anthropology 90
SCHEDULE
Week I (Jan. 19 and 21)
Jan. 19:
 Introduction
Jan. 21:
 Nasaw, D., Schooled to Order, Intro. & chs. 2-5.
 “First memory of schooling” due, by email, before class.
Week II (Jan. 26 and 28)
Jan. 26
 Nasaw, chs. 6-13; click here for the study guide for these chapters.
Jan. 28
 Nasaw, chs. 14-end.
Jan. 31 (Sunday)
 Your memoir of pre-school through end of elementary school, due by 7
p.m.
Week III
Feb. 2
 Kozol, J., Savage Inequalities, tba.
Feb. 4
 Kozol, tba.
Feb. 7 (Sunday)
 Your memoir of middle school/junior high school, due by 7 p.m.
Week IV
Feb. 9
 Collins, J., “Socialization to Text: Structure and Contradiction in Schooled
Literacy” (1966), in Natural Histories of Discourse, ed. by M. Silverstein
and G. Urban.
Feb. 11
 Weber, E. “Civilizing in Earnest: Schools and Schooling,” (1977), Peasants
into Frenchmen.
Week V
Feb. 16
 Foley, D., Learning Capitalist Culture, tba
Feb. 18
 Foley, tba.
Week VI
Feb. 23
 Ortner, S., New Jersey Dreaming, tba.
Feb. 25
 Ortner, tba.
Week VII
Mar. 1
 Ortner, tba.
Mar. 3
 Shankar, S., Desi Land, tba.
Mar. 7
 Your memoir of high school, due by 7 p.m.
Week VIII
Mar. 8
 Shanker, S., tba.
Mar. 10
 Stambach, A., Lessons from Mt. Kilimanjaro, tba.
Week IX
Mar. 22
 Stambach, tba.
Mar. 24
 Stambach, tba.
Week X
Mar. 29
 Hollinger, D., Science Jews, and Secular Culture, tba.
Mar. 31
 Hollinger, tba.
Week XI
Apr. 5
 Segal, D., “’Western Civ’ and the Staging of History in American Higher
Education,” (2001), American Historical Review 105 (3): 770-805.
Apr. 7
 Guillory, J., Cultural Capital, tba.
Apr. 10
 Your memoir of college, due by 7 p.m.
Week XII
Apr. 12
 Guillory, tba.
Apr. 14
 McGurl, M., The Program Era, tba. (tentative)
Week XIII
Apr. 19
 McGurl, M. tba. (tentative)
Apr. 21
 Contemporary Issues, tba.
Week XIV
Apr. 26
 Contemporary Issues, tba.
Apr. 28
 Contemporary Issues, tba.
Week XV
May 3
 Contemporary Issues, tba.
ASSIGNMENTS
For most readings, you will be sent a study guide; written responses to each
study guide are due by midnight, the night before a class meeting.
During the first part of the semester, you will write sections of a memoir of
your own school experience.
Your final assignment is to revise that school memoir and produce an analytic
commentary on it, using the materials studied in the class. This will be due on
the Friday of finals week by 5:00 p.m. for all non-seniors; for seniors, it will be
due on Friday of the last week of classes by 5:00 p.m.
GRADING
Study Guides
In Class Participation
Initial School Memoir
Revised School Memoir and Analytic Commentary
25%
25%
20%
30%
BOOKS
You will be reading all or most of the following books; other readings will be
available as PDF files.
Foley, Douglas, Learning Capitalist Culture (2010 [1994]).
Guillory, John, Cultural Capital: the Problem of Literary Canon Formation
(1995).
Hollinger, David, Science, Jews, and Secular Culture (1998).
Kozol, Jonathan, Savage Inequalities (1992 [2012]).
Lemann, Nicholas, The Big Test: the Secret History of the American Meritocracy
(1999).
Nasaw, David, Schooled to Order (1979).
Ortner, Sherry, New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture, and the Class of ‘58
(2005).
Shankar, Shalina, Desi Land: Teen Culture, Class, and Success in Silicon Valley
(2008).
Stambach, Amy, Lessons from Mt. Kilimanjaro: Schooling, Community, and
Gender in East Africa (2000).