Honours Chemistry: High-Status Knowledge or Knowledge about High Status?.

Costa, Victoria B.

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ERIC Number: EJ553026

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1997

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Honours Chemistry: High-Status Knowledge or Knowledge about High Status?

Costa, Victoria B.

Journal of Curriculum Studies, v29 n3 p289-313 May-Jun 1997

Examines the conflicting conceptualizations concerning the status of high school honors chemistry and the actual importance of the class. Reveals that standards of behavior and learning are actually less in the honors class. Examines this phenomenon from a sociological and anthropological perspective. (MJP)

Descriptors: Chemistry, Educational Attitudes, Educational Sociology, Elitism, Ethnography, Higher Education, Honors Curriculum, Public Opinion, School Culture, Science and Society, Social Status, Social Stratification, Social Studies, Sociocultural Patterns

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Audience: Researchers

Language: English

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