The best of the best : becoming elite at an American boarding school / / Ruben A. Gaztambide-Fernandez
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| Autore: |
Gaztambide-Fernandez Ruben A. <1971->
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| Titolo: |
The best of the best : becoming elite at an American boarding school / / Ruben A. Gaztambide-Fernandez
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2009 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 297 p. : ill |
| Disciplina: | 373.2/220973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Boarding schools - United States |
| Elite (Social sciences) - Education - United States | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Totally elite -- Getting in -- Being smart, working hard -- Reserved seating -- Bonding rituals -- Unequal distinctions -- Envisioning an elite future -- Appendix: Researching identification at an elite boarding school. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | For two years, Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández shared the life of what he calls the "Weston School," an elite New England boarding school. Vividly describing the pastoral landscape and graceful buildings, the rich variety of classes and activities, and the official and unofficial rules that define the school, The Best of the Best reveals a small world of deeply ambitious, intensely pressured students. For Gaztambide-Fernández, Weston is daunting yet strikingly bucolic, inspiring but frustratingly incurious, and sometimes - especially for young women - a gilded cage for a gilded age. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The best of the best |
| ISBN: | 0-674-26374-X |
| 0-674-05387-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910814495003321 |
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