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Product Description: This book is the product of complex research in America into the issue of student drop-out from school, involving visiting classrooms and talking with teachers and students. The data collected was synthesized into several case studies for each school and subjected to further dialogue and criticism...read more

Product Description: Lesko explores the contemporary cultural themes of individualism and community within the setting of a mid-western coed Catholic high school. Approaching these themes from a structualist perspective, she examines conflicts between them on the level of the school's organization and on the level of students' peer relations, as well as temporary mediations of these conflicts during annual school rituals...read more