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Building Understanding About Classism brochure by the Elementary Teacher's Federation of Ontario
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TEACHER RESOURCES AND READINGS
Betsy Leondar-WrightETFO
Beth Shulmanbell hooks
Bill Bigelow, Stan Karp, Wayne Au
Salome Lukas and Judy Vashti Persad
Peel District School Board
Nancy Schneidewind
Barbara EhrenreichToronto District School Board
WEBSITES
Source: Toronto District
School Board, 2005.
Suite 1000, 480 University Avenue
Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1V2
Fax: 416-642-2424
“Poverty is the worst form of violence”—Mahatma Gandhi
This pamphlet was created to assist in
building an increased understanding and
awareness of issues that relate to socio-
economic class, class bias, and classism.
Be prepared tochallenge classism.
Commitments we can make and/or actions we can take to challenge and confront classism
Personal level
their child’s education that include work schedules,
School level
and implement strategies to detect class bias in literature.
due to costs associated with participating in extra-curricular activities, special events, or other “essential” materials.
Societal level
Building understanding about issues of classism
economic and/or social position based on their income,
power in the economic and political spheres.
an individual’s or group’s education, occupation, income, wealth, and/or economic means.
against persons according to their socio-economic status. It
perceived social class.
poverty.
class and classism.
Our school systems and wider society might perpetuate class bias with the assumptions that:
who do well in school are viewed as the exception and not the rule;
c. Middle and upper class students will continue their education beyond high school, while poor and working class students are not interested in post-secondary education;
d. Intellectual work is inherently superior to physical labour and
Books to start/support discussion of classism
PRIMARY
Vera B. WilliamsElisa Bartone
Karen AckermanMir Tamim Ansary
Maureen BaylessByrd Baylor
Eve Bunting Eve Bunting
Eve Bunting
Peter EyvindsonMonica Gunning
JUNIOR
Sharon Denis WyethPaul Yee
KurusaYin
Ian WallaceEve Bunting
Gary PaulsenKathleen Krull
INTERMEDIATE
Deborah EllisJerry Spinelli
Susan KuklinMarilyn Sachs
Michael SilverstoneBarbara Haworth-Attard
Glen Huser—John Hofley, 1971
Be prepared to challenge classism.