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Palgrave MacMillan Culture and Structure at a Military Charter School From School Ground to Battle Ground 2014 Edition by Brooke Johnson
Taking military charter schools as her subject, and drawing on years of research at one school in particular, Brooke Johnson explores the underpinings of a culture based on militarization and neoliberal educational reforms and probes its effects on individual identity and social interactions at the school. Table of contents :- 1. Introduction 2. Neoliberalism, Militarization, and Public Education 3. Sending Good Kids to Military School: Why Parents Choose the MEI 4. Reading, Writing, Arithmetic and War: Militarized Pedagogy and Militarized Futures 5. A Few Good Boys: Gender at the MEI 6. Ask, Tell, Talk Back: Queering Resistance to Gendered Heteronormativity 7. Conclusion