Military High Schools in America (Paperback)

Once considered a bastion of learning, leadership, and disciplined lifestyle, todayas 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 military school life. From the admissions office to the daily life in barracks, classrooms, playing fields, and social events, he describes how these schools endeavor to realize their mission of creating educated, mature young men from largely at-risk youth and the challengesaboth met and unmetain doing so. This volume will be of interest to anyone interested in the fields of secondary and alternative education, at-risk youth, and the military and society.

General

Imprint:	Left Coast Press Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2009
First published:	March 2009
Authors:	William B. Trousdale
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	488
ISBN-13:	978-1-59874-117-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Schools > General Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Military life & institutions > General Promotions
LSN:	1-59874-117-9
Barcode:	9781598741179

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