How is the awareness of being privileged generated and how does it impact elite students?
We’ve all known that usually people in elite schools are from wealthy families who get advantageous resources and opportunities. As a result, I am curious about whether or not they can sense their privilege and how they think about their privilege. For this blog, I will mainly focus on interviews with a student called Kwabena Dankwah from Sankofa International College in Ghana and use them as examples to explain how elite students understand their privilege.
- How do elite students feel their privileges in daily life at school?
- How is the elite family involved in the generation of the awareness of being privileged?
- How does the school guide their understanding of being privileged?
Elite students recognize their privileges in many different settings, including daily conversations with peers, family pressure, and school pedagogy. And they may have different impacts on the students, making students work hard to achieve individual success and care about services and social injustice at the same time.
