MILITARY HIGH SCHOOLS IN AMERICA.

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Once considered a bastion of learning, leadership, and disciplined lifestyle, today's private military academies are often regarded as expensive holding facilities for unwanted, incorrigible boys who have nowhere else to go. Their depiction in popular media has reinforced the impression that th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Trousdale, William
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Walnut Creek : Left Coast Press, Inc., 2010.
Temas:
Military education > United States.
Private schools > United States > History.
Education.
Military art and science.
Military Science
Écoles privées > États-Unis > Histoire.
Art et science militaires.
EDUCATION > Secondary.
HISTORY > Military > Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
Education
Military art and science
Military education
Private schools
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Once considered a bastion of learning, leadership, and disciplined lifestyle, today's private military academies are often regarded as expensive holding facilities for unwanted, incorrigible boys who have nowhere else to go. Their depiction in popular media has reinforced the impression that they are boot camps disguised as educational institutions. The reality is far more complex and far more encouraging. Using a decade of participant observation research, including serving as an instructor at some of these schools, anthropologist William Trousdale explores the contemporary experience of mili.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (490 pages)
ISBN:9781598747287
1598747282
1598741160
9781598741162
1598741179
9781598741179

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