Johnson Culture and Structure at a Military Charter School

From School Ground to Battle Ground
2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-35763-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 190 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: New Frontiers in Education, Culture, and Politics

Taking military charter schools as her subject, and drawing on years of research at one school in particular, Brooke Johnson explores the underpinings of a culture based on militarization and neoliberal educational reforms and probes its effects on individual identity and social interactions at the school.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johnson, Brooke

Johnson, B.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Neoliberalism, Militarization, and Public Education 3. Sending Good Kids to Military School: Why Parents Choose the MEI 4. Reading, Writing, Arithmetic and War: Militarized Pedagogy and Militarized Futures 5. A Few Good Boys: Gender at the MEI 6. Ask, Tell, Talk Back: Queering Resistance to Gendered Heteronormativity 7. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Brooke Johnson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Northeastern Illinois University, USA.