Preparing for Power : America's Elite Boarding Schools - 85 edition
Preparing for Power : America's Elite Boarding Schools - 85 edition
ISBN13: 9780465062690
ISBN10: 0465062695
by Peter W. Jr. Cookson and Caroline Hodges Persell
Cover type: PaperbackEdition: 85
Copyright: 1985
Publisher: Basic Books, Inc.
Published: 1985
International: No
ISBN13: 9780465062690
ISBN10: 0465062695
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Summary
Why do private boarding schools produce such a disproportionate number of leaders in business, government, and the arts? In the most comprehensive study of its kind to date, two sociologists describe the complex ways in which elite schools prepare students for success and power, and they also provide a lively behind-the-scenes look at prep-school life and underlife.
Table of Contents
- Prologue : Seeking the Prep School Perspective
- The World of Boarding Schools
- Privilege and the Importance of Elite Education
- Rousseau's Children : Total Educational Environments
- The Chosen Ones
- The Prep Rite of Passage
- Cultural Capital : Curricula and Teachers
- Academic Climates, Teaching Styles, and Student Stress
- The Iron Hand in the Velvet Glove : Trustees, Heads, and Charisma
- The Prep Crucible
- The Student Underlife and the Loss of Innocence
- The World Beyond
- The Vital Link : Prep Schools and Higher Education
- Preps at Play and in the Power Structure
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Why do private boarding schools produce such a disproportionate number of leaders in business, government, and the arts? In the most comprehensive study of its kind to date, two sociologists describe the complex ways in which elite schools prepare students for success and power, and they also provide a lively behind-the-scenes look at prep-school life and underlife.
- Prologue : Seeking the Prep School Perspective
- The World of Boarding Schools
- Privilege and the Importance of Elite Education
- Rousseau's Children : Total Educational Environments
- The Chosen Ones
- The Prep Rite of Passage
- Cultural Capital : Curricula and Teachers
- Academic Climates, Teaching Styles, and Student Stress
- The Iron Hand in the Velvet Glove : Trustees, Heads, and Charisma
- The Prep Crucible
- The Student Underlife and the Loss of Innocence
- The World Beyond
- The Vital Link : Prep Schools and Higher Education
- Preps at Play and in the Power Structure
Published: 1985
International: No
Summary
Why do private boarding schools produce such a disproportionate number of leaders in business, government, and the arts? In the most comprehensive study of its kind to date, two sociologists describe the complex ways in which elite schools prepare students for success and power, and they also provide a lively behind-the-scenes look at prep-school life and underlife.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
- Prologue : Seeking the Prep School Perspective
- The World of Boarding Schools
- Privilege and the Importance of Elite Education
- Rousseau's Children : Total Educational Environments
- The Chosen Ones
- The Prep Rite of Passage
- Cultural Capital : Curricula and Teachers
- Academic Climates, Teaching Styles, and Student Stress
- The Iron Hand in the Velvet Glove : Trustees, Heads, and Charisma
- The Prep Crucible
- The Student Underlife and the Loss of Innocence
- The World Beyond
- The Vital Link : Prep Schools and Higher Education
- Preps at Play and in the Power Structure
