Mitchell Stevens
Auteur de Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites
A propos de l'auteur
Mitchell L. Stevens is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Hamilton College
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Creating a Class: College Admissions and the… par Mitchell L. Stevens
I enjoyed reading this book, partly because my youngest niece has gone through the admissions process this past academic year. Creating a Class reiterated what I already knew about the competitiveness of the admissions process, but it was interesting hearing it from an "outside insider." (The author is a professor who did a stint in Admissions.) I'd definitely recommend this book to people in academia, as well as parents interested in sending their children to a competitive school.
This is a sociological study of U.S. homeschooling, mostly since the late 1970's.
Stevens tries to sort out the fork homeschooling took down an evangelical Christian path on the one hand and a vaguely lefty nonsectarian path on the other (and how the right-wing side managed to prevail as the homeschooling "norm").
He oversimplifies both Christianity and feminism a bit, but for someone not particularly versed in religion in the U.S. and coming to feminism mostly through a specific, academic second-wavy perspective, I think he does a fair job.
I learned a lot about the history of the current homeschool movement from this book. I also appreciated a non-homeschooler's perspective on the movement, since most homeschooling books by homeschoolers are so clearly biased.… (plus d'informations)
Stevens tries to sort out the fork homeschooling took down an evangelical Christian path on the one hand and a vaguely lefty nonsectarian path on the other (and how the right-wing side managed to prevail as the homeschooling "norm").
He oversimplifies both Christianity and feminism a bit, but for someone not particularly versed in religion in the U.S. and coming to feminism mostly through a specific, academic second-wavy perspective, I think he does a fair job.
I learned a lot about the history of the current homeschool movement from this book. I also appreciated a non-homeschooler's perspective on the movement, since most homeschooling books by homeschoolers are so clearly biased.… (plus d'informations)
This author is unusually knowledgeable about homeschooling and has a lot of interesting things to say about the development of the movement from a sociological standpoint. I don't agree with him on everything, and the homeschooling world seems to me to be a lot bigger and more complex than what he was able to study, but, still, this is a very interesting read.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 5
- Membres
- 147
- Popularité
- #140,982
- Évaluation
- 3.2
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 13