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The Wealthy, the Brilliant, the Few

Elite Education in Contemporary American Discourse

Produktform: Buch / Einband - flex.(Paperback)

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.weiterlesen

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Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-3-8376-5729-6 / 978-3837657296 / 9783837657296

Verlag: transcript

Erscheinungsdatum: 31.05.2021

Seiten: 276

Auflage: 1

Autor(en): Sophie Spieler

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