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.

Autorentext
Brooke Johnson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Northeastern Illinois University, USA.

Inhalt

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