The enigmatic academy : class, bureaucracy, and religion in American education /

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"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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Churchill, Christian J., 1969-
Otros Autores: Levy, Gerald, 1940-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia, Pa. : Temple University Press, 2012.
Temas:
Education > Social aspects > United States.
Social classes > United States.
Classes sociales > États-Unis.
EDUCATION > Secondary.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Education > Social aspects
Social classes
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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