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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Churchill, Christian John (1969)
Levy, Gerald Ernest (1940-....)
Titre(s) : The enigmatic academy [Texte imprimé] : class, bureaucracy, and religion in American education / Christian J. Churchill and Gerald E. Levy
Publication : Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2012
Description matérielle : viii, 223 p. ; 24 cm
Comprend : Pt. I. Plufort College. The regional atmosphere ; The development thrust ; The Symbiotic
community ; The academic trajectory ; The sociopolitical whirlpool ; The socially
ironic reality screen ; The public relations panorama ; The competitive strain ;
Conclusion: the bureaucratic grip ; pt. II. Mountainview School. The Brahmin tone
; The civil service intrusion ; The embattled entitlement path ; The clubbable
induction ; The currency of behavior ; The leisured deviance realm ; Conclusion:
rentier incorrigibility in academe ; pt. III. Landover Job Corps Center. History:
profit motives, local fears, violent outbreaks ; Approaching Landover ; The river
to the job ; Responses to institutionalized failure ; Students: "it's a risky place"
; Conclusion: the veil of ennui.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-213) and index
"The Enigmatic Academy is a provocative look at the purpose and practice of education
in America. Authors Christian Churchill and Gerald Levy use three case studies - a
liberal arts college, a boarding school, and a Job Corps centre - to illustrate how
class, bureaucratic, and secular-religious dimensions of education prepare youth for
participation in American foreign and domestic policy at all levels. The authors describe
how schools contribute to the formation of a bureaucratic character; how middle and
upper class students are trained for leadership positions in corporations, government,
and the military; and how the education of lower class students often serves more
powerful classes and institutions. Exploring how youth and their educators encounter
the complexities of ideology and bureaucracy in school, The Enigmatic Academy deepens
our understanding of the flawed redemptive relationship between education and society
in the United States. Paradoxically, these three studied schools all prepare students
to participate in a society whose values they oppose"--
Sujet(s) : Éducation -- Société -- États-Unis
Religion et éducation -- États-Unis
Classes sociales -- États-Unis
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781439907832 (hardback) (alk. paper). - ISBN 1439907838 (hardback) (alk. paper).
- ISBN 9781439907849 (paper) (alk. paper). - ISBN 1439907846 (paper) (alk. paper).
- ISBN 9781439907856 (e-book). - ISBN 1439907854 (e-book)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42754634x
Notice n° :
FRBNF42754634
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