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The Enigmatic Academy: Class, Bureaucracy, and Religion in American Education
Author(s): Christian J. Churchill (Author), Gerald Levy (Author)
- Publisher: Temple University Press
- Publication Date: 15 Jun. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 234 pages
- ISBN-10: 1439907838
- ISBN-13: 9781439907832
Book Description
Challenging the common idea that education can save the individual and society from major problems of the modern world.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“[T]he cases are insightful and comprehensive ethnographies that offhandedly integrate aspects of academics – student life and student support, marketing, recruitment, retention, community relations and government policies – they are engaging and thought-provoking from many enrollment management/student services perspectives… [The authors’] observations are intense and insightful.” Strategic Enrollment Management Source “Their research method is ethnographic case studies of three kinds of schools (for which the book is organized into three parts)… Each part ends with a conclusion that is a superb summary of the previous analysis, and the summaries will make the blood of readers concerned with social justice boil… Summing Up: Recommended.”–Choice, February 2013
About the Author
Christian J. Churchill is Professor of Sociology at St. Thomas Aquinas College, author of numerous articles in sociology, and a licensed psychoanalyst in private practice in Manhattan. Gerald E. Levy is a sociologist and author of Ghetto School: Class Warfare in an Elementary School. He taught at the college level for forty years and is now retired.
