Elsa Davidson
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814720875
- eISBN:
- 9780814785065
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814720875.003.0003
- Subject:
- Education, Educational Policy and Politics
This chapter examines the aspirations and strategies of self-cultivation among the children of Silicon Valley's established, professional middle class in relation to school and community environments ...
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This chapter examines the aspirations and strategies of self-cultivation among the children of Silicon Valley's established, professional middle class in relation to school and community environments shaped by daily exposure to techno-entrepreneurial social practices, values, and success, along with familial experiences of social and economic insecurity. In particular, it considers the aspiration management of students of Sanders High School in Palo Alto, as well as the students' view of their school as a zone of self-expression and exceptionalism. It also discusses the students' marketing of themselves as authentic, original, sophisticated youth, along with the conflicts and fears of exclusion that they experienced.Less
This chapter examines the aspirations and strategies of self-cultivation among the children of Silicon Valley's established, professional middle class in relation to school and community environments shaped by daily exposure to techno-entrepreneurial social practices, values, and success, along with familial experiences of social and economic insecurity. In particular, it considers the aspiration management of students of Sanders High School in Palo Alto, as well as the students' view of their school as a zone of self-expression and exceptionalism. It also discusses the students' marketing of themselves as authentic, original, sophisticated youth, along with the conflicts and fears of exclusion that they experienced.
