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OverviewChallenging the common idea that education can save the individual and society from major problems of the modern world. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Christian J. Churchill , Gerald LevyPublisher: Temple University Press,U.S. Imprint: Temple University Press,U.S. Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781439907832ISBN 10: 1439907838 Pages: 234 Publication Date: 15 June 2012 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Class, Bureaucracy, and Religion in American Education; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I. PLUFORT COLLEGE; Introduction; The Regional Atmosphere; The Developmental Thrust; The Symbiotic Community; The Academic Trajectory; The Socio-Political Whirlpool; The Socially Ironic Reality Screen; The Public Relations Panorama; The Competitive Strain; Conclusion: The Bureaucratic Grip; PART II. MOUNTAINVIEW SCHOOL; Introduction; 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;; PART III. LANDOVER JOB CORPS CENTER; Introduction; 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; CONCLUSION; ENDNOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY."Reviews""[T]he cases are insightful and comprehensive ethnographies that offhandedly integrate aspects of academics - student life and student support, marketing, recruitment, retention, community relations and government policies - they are engaging and thought-provoking from many enrollment management/student services perspectives... [The authors'] observations are intense and insightful."" Strategic Enrollment Management Source ""Their research method is ethnographic case studies of three kinds of schools (for which the book is organized into three parts)... Each part ends with a conclusion that is a superb summary of the previous analysis, and the summaries will make the blood of readers concerned with social justice boil... Summing Up: Recommended.""--Choice, February 2013 [T]he cases are insightful and comprehensive ethnographies that offhandedly integrate aspects of academics - student life and student support, marketing, recruitment, retention, community relations and government policies - they are engaging and thought-provoking from many enrollment management/student services perspectives... [The authors'] observations are intense and insightful. Strategic Enrollment Management Source Their research method is ethnographic case studies of three kinds of schools (for which the book is organized into three parts)... Each part ends with a conclusion that is a superb summary of the previous analysis, and the summaries will make the blood of readers concerned with social justice boil... Summing Up: Recommended. --Choice, February 2013 Author InformationChristian J. Churchill is Professor of Sociology at St. Thomas Aquinas College, author of numerous articles in sociology, and a licensed psychoanalyst in private practice in Manhattan. Gerald E. Levy is a sociologist and author of Ghetto School: Class Warfare in an Elementary School. He taught at the college level for forty years and is now retired. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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