Author: Joyce Constance ManuelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religious education of young people
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Junior Citizen
Author: Joyce Constance ManuelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religious education of young people
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Junior Republic Citizen
Author: Citizen Dan of the Junior Republic
Author: Ida Treadwell ThurstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Junior Republic Citizen
Author: The United States Junior Citizens Service Corps
Author: Junior Citizens in Action
Author: Walter Ray HepnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Citizenship
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Citizen, Student, Soldier
Author: Gina M. PérezPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 147980780X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Since the 1990s, Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) programs have experienced unprecedented expansion in American public schools. The program and its proliferation in poor, urban schools districts with large numbers of Latina/o and African American students is not without controversy. Public support is often based on the belief that the program provides much-needed discipline for "at risk" youth. Meanwhile, critics of JROTC argue that the program is a recruiting tool for the U.S. military and is yet another example of an increasingly punitive climate that disproportionately affect youth of color in American public schools. Citizen, Student, Soldier intervenes in these debates, providing critical ethnographic attention to understanding the motivations, aspirations, and experiences of students who participate in increasing numbers in JROTC programs. These students have complex reasons for their participation, reasons that challenge the reductive idea that they are either dangerous youths who need discipline or victims being exploited by a predatory program. Rather, their participation is informed by their marginal economic position in the local political economy, as well as their desire to be regarded as full citizens, both locally and nationally. Citizenship is one of the central concerns guiding the JROTC curriculum; this book explores ethnographically how students understand and enact different visions of citizenship and grounds these understandings in local and national political economic contexts. It also highlights the ideological, social and cultural conditions of Latina/o youth and their families who both participate in and are enmeshed in vigorous debates about citizenship, obligation, social opportunity, militarism and, ultimately, the American Dream.
The Young American Citizen
Author: Jesse Hinton BinfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Citizenship
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Annual Schoolmen's Week Proceedings
Author: University of PennsylvaniaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1836
Book Description
Model Citizens
Author: Daniel ShandPublisher: Corsair
ISBN: 1472156633
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
'It has the pace and dynamism of a thriller, the metaphysical curiosity of the best science fiction and some judiciously-planted charges of wry humour' The Herald 'A dazzling novel' Edmund Gordon, award-winning author And how to tell what the best things were? Well, that was easy: the best things were the ones with the most people looking at them. Alastair Buchanan has a comfortable life. It's been a year since he received his very own junior - a clone designed to help him escape the daily grind. So why does Alastair spend his days alone, online, obsessing over his status? When his long-term girlfriend Caitlin can't take it anymore, Alastair does his best to hold it together. But then, a remnant from his past appears and he is forced to confront the level of control that technology has over his life. Elsewhere, an anti-tech terrorist cell dedicated to yanking humanity back to the 1990s is building momentum. And looming over everyone is Kim Larson, inventor of the juniors. But when Kim realises that humanity's future lies in the stars, who will be left to hold him to account? From award-winning author Daniel Shand, Model Citizens explores a surreal world peopled by humans struggling with their dehumanising present. Full of suspense, it asks us what we give up when we exist online, and who we can trust to take care of us. Model Citizens is a subversive and darkly comic story of class, technology, and responsibility, offering a vision of the future that may be closer than we realise.