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Carte Producing Success Peter Demerath

Producing Success

The Culture of Personal Advancement in an American High School

Autor: Peter Demerath
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Carte broșată
Editura: The University of Chicago Press
Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern
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Middle- and upper-middle-class students continue to outpace those from less privileged backgrounds....

Informații despre carte

Autor
Peter Demerath
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Carte broșată
Publicat
2009
Pagini
224
EAN
9780226142418
ISBN
0226142418
Enbook ID
04543908
Editura
The University of Chicago Press
Greutate
326
Dimensiuni
153 x 228 x 13

Descriere completă

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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