Military culture and education

While studies of American military culture have proliferated in recent years, and the culture of academic institutions has been a subject of perennial interest, comparatively little has been written on the ways the military and academe intersect. These essays offer both ground-level perspectives of...

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Other Authors: Higbee, Douglas
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Surrey, UK Ashgate 2010
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I Intersections In and Out of the Field;
  • 1. Real Officers Don't Teach Keats: The Naval Academy, ROTC, and Military Spiritualism;
  • 2. Combat Ethnography;
  • 3. An American Professor with the Iraqi Army;
  • Part II Military Academies and Humanistic Inquiry;
  • 4. Teaching Citizen Soldiers: Civic Rhetoric and the Intersections of Theory and Practice at the Virginia Military Institute;
  • 5. Rethinking the Culture Wars at the Naval Academy;
  • 6. Literature, Identity, and Officership;
  • 7. Teaching English at West Point: A Dialogic Narrative;
  • 8. Cocked and Ready : the Humanities and homosociality at the Royal Military College of Canada;
  • Part III Teaching in Professional Military Schools
  • 9. Navel Gazing Google Deep : The Expertise Gap in the Academic-Military Relationship;
  • 10. Professors in the Colonels' World
  • 11. No "Holidays from History": Adult Learning, Professional Military Education, and Teaching History.