Culture and Structure at a Military Charter School [electronic resource] : From School Ground to Battle Ground /
Johnson, Brooke.author.
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.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Schools in the Crosshairs: 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: Masculinity at the MEI; 6 Ask, Tell, Talk Back: Queering Resistance to Gendered Heteronormativity; 7 Conclusion; Notes; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Educational sociology.
Educational sociology .
Education and sociology.
Education-Philosophy.
Education and state.
School management and organization.
School administration.
Educational policy.
Sociology of Education.
Sociology of Education.
Educational Philosophy.
Education Policy.
Administration, Organization and Leadership.
Educational Policy and Politics.