| Description |
1 online resource (297 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
IET telecommunications series ; 56 |
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IET telecommunications series ; 56.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Boarding schools -- United States -- Case studies
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Elite (Social sciences) -- Education -- United States -- Case studies
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EDUCATION -- Secondary.
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EDUCATION -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.
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Boarding schools
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Elite (Social sciences) -- Education
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Elite
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Schule
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Internaten.
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Elites.
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Sociale status.
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United States
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USA
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Verenigde Staten.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2009018307 |
| ISBN |
9780674053878 |
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0674053877 |
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