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Producing Success

The Culture of Personal Advancement in an American High School

Autor: Peter Demerath
Jazyk: Angličtina
Vazba: Brožovaná
Vydavatel: The University of Chicago Press
Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele
Odesíláme za 14-21 dnů
841 Kč
Middle- and upper-middle-class students continue to outpace those from less privileged backgrounds....

Informace o knize

Autor
Peter Demerath
Jazyk
Angličtina
Vazba
Kniha - Brožovaná
Vydáno
2009
Stránek
224
EAN
9780226142418
ISBN
0226142418
Enbook ID
04543908
Vydavatel
The University of Chicago Press
Hmotnost
326
Rozměry
153 x 228 x 13

Kompletní popis

Middle- and upper-middle-class students continue to outpace those from less privileged backgrounds. Most attempts to redress this inequality focus on the issue of access to financial resources, but, as "Producing Success" makes clear, the problem goes beyond mere economics. In this eye-opening study, Peter Demerath examines a typical suburban American high school to explain how some students get ahead. Demerath undertook four years of research at a midwestern high school to examine the mercilessly competitive culture that drives students to advance. "Producing Success" reveals the many ways the community's ideology of achievement plays out: students hone their work ethic and employ various strategies to succeed, from negotiating with teachers to cheating; parents relentlessly push their children while manipulating school policies to help them get ahead; and, administrators aid high performers in myriad ways, even naming over forty students 'valedictorians'. Yet, as Demerath shows, this unswerving commitment to individual advancement takes its toll, leading to student stress and fatigue, incivility and vandalism, and the alienation of the less successful. Insightful and candid, "Producing Success" is an often troubling account of the educationally and morally questionable results of the American culture of success.

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