Culture and structure at a military charter school : from school ground to battle ground / Brooke Johnson.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Johnson, Brooke, author.

Series:

• New frontiers in education, culture, and politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Charter schools--California--Case studies.
• Military education--California--Case studies.
• Military education.
• Charter schools.
• California.

Genre:

• Case studies.

Physical Description:

190 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

Military charter schools occupy a unique place in the American educational system, reflecting at once a movement toward neoliberal reform, the militarization of school and youth culture, and a strong belief in the power of neoliberal and military ideologies to help students. Drawing on years of research at one such school, Brooke Johnson opens up the culture of militarization and probes its effects on individual identity and social interactions. Exploring the origins of this culture and its effects on student knowledge, on constructions of gender and sexuality, and on students' family lives, Johnson shows how teachers, students, and families make sense of militarized and neoliberal education and how they resist it. Book jacket.

Contents:

• Schools in the crosshairs: neoliberalism, militarization, and public education
• Sending good kids to military school: why parents choose the MEI
• Reading, writing, arithmetic and war: militarized pedagogy and militarized futures
• A few good boys: gender at the MEI
• Ask, tell, talk back: queering resistance to gendered heteronormativity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9781137360922
• 1137360925

OCLC:

881655920