UID:
almahu_9949115179402882
Umfang:
1 online resource (276 p.)
ISBN:
9783839457290
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9783110743357
Serie:
American Culture Studies ; 33
Inhalt:
How do the US make sense of their own elite educational system, given that it seems to be at odds with core American values, such as equality of opportunity or upward mobility? Sophie Spieler explores scholarly and journalistic investigations, self-representational texts, and fictional narratives revolving around the Ivy League and its peers in order to understand elite education and its peculiar position in American cultural discourse. Among the book's most surprising and groundbreaking insights is the tenacity and adaptability of meritocratic ideology across all three sub-discourses, despite its fundamental incompatibility with the American educational system.
Anmerkung:
Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgements --
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Introduction --
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I. Exposition: Approaching the Elite Educational Space --
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1. Introductory Remarks --
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2. Starting Points: Eliteness and Education in American Culture --
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3. 'Very Important, Very Powerful, or Very Prominent': Eliteness in America --
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4. 'Excellence and Equity': Merit as the Price of Admission --
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5. 'A Touchy Subject'? Class and Elite Education --
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6. Concluding Remarks --
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II. Critique: Elite Education and Its Discontents --
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1. Introductory Remarks --
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2. Mapping the Critical Landscape --
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3. Progressivist Critiques --
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4. Conservative Critiques --
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5. Concluding Remarks --
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III. Affirmation: Self-Representation at Princeton University --
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1. Introductory Remarks --
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2. Elite College Admissions: A Discourse of Impossibility and Pathology --
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3. A Meritocracy of Affect --
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4. Epistemological Frames: Diversity, the Good Life, Community --
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5. Concluding Remarks --
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IV. Imagination: Fictionalizations of the Elite Educational Experience --
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1. Introductory Remarks --
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2. Exposition: Fiction in the Discourse of Elite Education --
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3. Prep in the Discourse: Publicity, 'Preppiness', and the Neoliberal Imagination --
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4. Diversity, Class, Mobility: Prep's Cultural Work --
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5. Concluding Remarks --
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Conclusion --
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Works Cited
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
DG Plus PP Package 2021 Part 2, De Gruyter, 9783110743357
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English, De Gruyter, 9783110754001
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021, De Gruyter, 9783110753776
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2021 English, De Gruyter, 9783110754124
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2021, De Gruyter, 9783110753899
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Amerikanistik
Schlagwort(e):
Hochschulschrift
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Hochschulschrift
DOI:
10.1515/9783839457290
