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The Wealthy, the Brilliant, the Few: Elite Education in Contemporary American Discourse (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783837657296)
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xHow 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.
Author: Sophie Spieler
ISBN-10: 3837657299
ISBN-13: 9783837657296
Publisher: Transcript Publishing
Language: English
Published: 06/27/2021
Pages: 276
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d
Author: Sophie Spieler
ISBN-10: 3837657299
ISBN-13: 9783837657296
Publisher: Transcript Publishing
Language: English
Published: 06/27/2021
Pages: 276
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d
By Sophie Spieler
xSophie Spieler studied American Studies, German, and English at the Universities of Greifswald, Dresden, and, as a Fulbright Scholar, at Fairfield University (CT, USA). She received her PhD from the Graduate School of the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at Freie Universit舩 Berlin. She has published on class, capital, and education as well as masculinity studies, Edith Wharton, and post-feminism.
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