MILITARY HIGH SCHOOLS IN AMERICA.:

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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1. Verfasser: Trousdale, William
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Walnut Creek : Left Coast Press, Inc., 2010.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (490 pages)
ISBN:9781598747287
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