The best of the best : becoming elite at an American boarding school /

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For two years, Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández shared the life of what he calls the "Weston School," an elite New England boarding school. Vividly describing the pastoral landscape and graceful buildings, the rich variety of classes and activities, and the official and unofficial rules that d...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gaztambide-Fernandez, Rubén A., 1971-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
Series:IET telecommunications series ; 56.
Subjects:
Boarding schools > United States > Case studies.
Elite (Social sciences) > Education > United States > Case studies.
Élite (Sciences sociales) > Éducation > États-Unis > Études de cas.
EDUCATION > Secondary.
EDUCATION > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
Boarding schools.
Elite (Social sciences) > Education.
Elite
Schule
Internaten.
Elites.
Sociale status.
Elite.
Schule.
United States.
USA
Verenigde Staten.
USA.
Case studies.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:For two years, Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández shared the life of what he calls the "Weston School," an elite New England boarding school. Vividly describing the pastoral landscape and graceful buildings, the rich variety of classes and activities, and the official and unofficial rules that define the school, The Best of the Best reveals a small world of deeply ambitious, intensely pressured students. For Gaztambide-Fernández, Weston is daunting yet strikingly bucolic, inspiring but frustratingly incurious, and sometimes - especially for young women - a gilded cage for a gilded age.
Physical Description:1 online resource (297 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780674053878
0674053877

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