Military high schools in America / William Trousdale.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trousdale, William.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military education--United States.

Military education.

Private schools--United States--History.

Private schools.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (490 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Once considered a bastion of learning, leadership, and disciplined lifestyle, today's 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

Contents:

CONTENTS; Preface; Introduction; Part I The Ethics of Admission; Chapter 1 The Numbers Game; Chapter 2 Families; Part II From Boys to Gentlemen; Chapter 3 The Man and His Gentlemen; Chapter 4 New Lives for Old; Chapter 5 Onward and Usually Upward; Chapter 6 A Sense of Worth; Chapter 7 Old Rusty Nails and Puppy Dogs' Tails . . .; Part III Watchman, What of the Night?; Chapter 8 Downward toward Disaster; Chapter 9 Man to Man; Chapter 10 Crooked Timber; Chapter 11 Tradition into Tragedy; Chapter 12 Broken Windows; Part IV Monastery or Magic Kingdom

Chapter 13 Traditional Values vs. Modern MayhemChapter 14 Survival of the Military School; Chapter 15 Suicidal Reinvention; Chapter 16 Cadet Nomenclature; Chapter 17 The Academic Component; Chapter 18 The Curriculum; Chapter 19 The Military Component; Chapter 20 The Athletic Component; Chapter 21 Sanctuary; Part V The Change is Forever; Chapter 22 The Change is Forever; Notes; Appendix: School Sources Used; References; Index; About the Author; Plates are located following page

Notes:

First published 2007 by Left Coast Press, Inc.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [427]-441) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-315-42463-0

1-315-42464-9

1-315-42465-7

1-59874-728-2

9781315424651

OCLC:

711747421