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.