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Brunner, Lynn Marie.

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Being American, being free: Images of America, American identity, and the students at St. Mary's Catholic high school for girls.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Being American, being free: Images of America, American identity, and the students at St. Mary's Catholic high school for girls./
Author:	Brunner, Lynn Marie.
Description:	161 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-12, Section: A, page: 4270.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-12A.
Subject:	Education, Sociology of. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3076470
ISBN:	0493968237

Being American, being free: Images of America, American identity, and the students at St. Mary's Catholic high school for girls.
Brunner, Lynn Marie.

Being American, being free: Images of America, American identity, and the students at St. Mary's Catholic high school for girls. - 161 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-12, Section: A, page: 4270.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 2003.

This study sought to determine if the wider societal debate over multicultural curriculum in the schools, part of the "culture wars" of the 1990's, made itself felt within the curriculum and school culture of a Catholic high school for girls. The study asked: What were the images of America conveyed by curriculum and school culture at St. Mary's, a private Catholic high school for girls?; What, if anything, did these students make of the images conveyed by the curriculum and school culture in constructing a national identity?; and, What other sources might influence the national identities these girls construct? Qualitative research methods, including in-depth interviews, observations, and content analysis, were used.

ISBN: 0493968237Subjects--Topical Terms:

626654
Education, Sociology of.

Being American, being free: Images of America, American identity, and the students at St. Mary's Catholic high school for girls.
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