Class-first analysis in a continuum: an approach to the complexities of schools, society, and insurgent science |
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| Authors: | Laura Alicia Valdiviezo |
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| Institution: | (1) School of Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA |
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| Abstract: | This essay addresses Katherine Richardson Bruna’s paper: Mexican Immigrant Transnational Social Capital and Class Transformation: Examining the Role of Peer Mediation in Insurgent
Science, through five main points. First, I offer a comparison between the traditional analysis of classism in Latin America and Richardson Bruna’s call for
a class-first analysis in the North American social sciences where there has been a tendency to obviate the specific examination
of class relations and class issues. Secondly, I discuss that a class-first analysis solely cannot suffice to depict the complex
dimensions in the relations of schools and society. Thus, I suggest a continuum in the class-first analysis. Third, I argue
that social constructions surrounding issues of language, ethnicity, and gender necessarily intersect with issues of class
and that, in fact, those other constructions offer compatible epistemologies that aid in representing the complexity of social
and institutional practices in the capitalist society. Richardson Bruna’s analysis of Augusto’s interactions with his teacher
and peers in the science class provides a fourth point of discussion in this essay. As a final point in my response I discuss
Richardson Bruna’s idea of making accessible class-first analysis knowledge to educators and especially to science teachers. |
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