A Body At A Boarding School

Author : Benedict Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1838299246

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A Body at a Boarding School by Benedict Brown Pdf

Something is rotten at the Oakton Academy for Distinguished Young Gentlemen. With rumours of fighting, cheating, and all-night parties - and that's just the teachers - the headmaster is losing control of the school. When a body is discovered, bludgeoned to death with a monkey statue on the last day of term, renowned detective Lord Edgington and his bumbling grandson Christopher are on hand to search for the killer. But with such a range of despicable suspects, - again, that's just the teachers - plotting prefects and maniacal students to choose from, will the discordant duo be up to the challenge? The second book in the "Lord Edgington Investigates..." mystery series has all the intrigue, humour and twists of its bestselling predecessor, "Murder at the Spring Ball". "A Body at a Boarding School" is a 1920s-style whodunnit in a wonderfully wicked setting with a cast of curious characters to enjoy. Get ready to discover whether the great Lord Edgington can catch the killer and be home in time for afternoon tea.

Author : Joy Schaverien
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317506584

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Boarding School Syndrome by Joy Schaverien Pdf

Boarding School Syndrome is an analysis of the trauma of the 'privileged' child sent to boarding school at a young age. Innovative and challenging, Joy Schaverien offers a psychological analysis of the long-established British and colonial preparatory and public boarding school tradition. Richly illustrated with pictures and the narratives of adult ex-boarders in psychotherapy, the book demonstrates how some forms of enduring distress in adult life may be traced back to the early losses of home and family. Developed from clinical research and informed by attachment and child development theories ‘Boarding School Syndrome’ is a new term that offers a theoretical framework on which the psychotherapeutic treatment of ex-boarders may build. Divided into four parts, History: In the Name of Privilege; Exile and Healing; Broken Attachments: A Hidden Trauma, and The Boarding School Body, the book includes vivid case studies of ex-boarders in psychotherapy. Their accounts reveal details of the suffering endured: loss, bereavement and captivity are sometimes compounded by physical, sexual and psychological abuse. Here, Joy Schaverien shows how many boarders adopt unconscious coping strategies including dissociative amnesia resulting in a psychological split between the 'home self' and the 'boarding school self'. This pattern may continue into adult life, causing difficulties in intimate relationships, generalized depression and separation anxiety amongst other forms of psychological distress. Boarding School Syndrome demonstrates how boarding school may damage those it is meant to be a reward and discusses the wider implications of this tradition. It will be essential reading for psychoanalysts, Jungian analysts, psychotherapists, art psychotherapists, counsellors and others interested in the psychological, cultural and international legacy of this tradition including ex-boarders and their partners.

Author : Harper
Publisher : Dr. Harper Therapy
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578986647

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The Disturbing Incidents at Lonesome Woods Boarding School by Harper Pdf

The devastating start to Dr. Harper's career. I wasn't always like this, you know - paranoid, temperamental, vindictive. I mean, sure, I've always been a bit... high strung. But I never used to stalk my therapist patients. Or yell at them. Or hold them captive in my garage. No, all of that started after the incidents at Lonesome Woods Boarding School. And I'm not talking about the school shooter. This was something far more insidious - something... infectious. Like a cancerous disease that tore through the student body, rotting young hearts one by one. But mental illness can't do that. Can it? I came into this profession optimistic and ready to help. I was young, naive, and eager find to the glimmer of good in every patient. But after Lonesome Woods, I began to search for evil instead.

Author : Steve Wharton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798650026495

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Boarding School by Steve Wharton Pdf

The true story of life in a traditional English boarding school in the late 1960's, as told by the author. Including entertaining tales of everyday school life, as well as how the values of the school helped him step onto the road of overcoming a difficult early childhood. A glimpse of how the human mind works written in a simple and understandable way. A small book with a BIG message.

Author : Penny Cavenagh,Susan McPherson,Jane Ogden
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000929676

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The Psychological Impact of Boarding School by Penny Cavenagh,Susan McPherson,Jane Ogden Pdf

The Psychological Impact of Boarding School is a collection of research-based essays answering a range of questions about boarding school and its long-term impact. Through a combination of original in-depth first-person narratives as well as larger scale surveys, this book aims to fill gaps in current boarding school research and present new findings. Topics addressed include gender differences, eating behaviours, loneliness, mental health and relationships, the differences between younger and older boarders, and ex-boarder experiences of therapy. The research results highlight a key role in the age that children start boarding, the way that long-term psychological influences of friendships formed at school, and the larger role that parent and family relationships play in the psychological lives of boarders. Through these findings, the book ultimately challenges the current understanding of 'boarding school syndrome', proposing a move beyond the term and its concept. The book will appeal to psychologists, psychoanalysts, counsellors, academics, teachers, current and ex-boarders as well as parents and guardians interested in the impact of boarding schools from either a professional or a personal perspective.

Author : Nick Duffell
Publisher : Lone Arrow Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Boarding school students
ISBN : 0953790401

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The Making of Them by Nick Duffell Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555100127

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Reports from Select Committees of the House of Commons, and Evidence, Communicated to the Lords by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords Pdf

Author : Yangbin Chen
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Boarding school students
ISBN : 073912112X

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Muslim Uyghur Students in a Chinese Boarding School by Yangbin Chen Pdf

One of the most controversial policies in Chinese minority education concerns the so-called inland ethnic minority schools or classes in Han-inhabited areas in China. Since 2000, boarding Xinjiang Classes have been established in the eastern cities of China for high school students from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, in order to educate young Uyghur and other ethnic minority students through the national curricula. Yangbin Chen conceptualizes the process of Uyghur students' responses to the school goal of ethnic integration as social recapitalization. While their former social capital from families or communities in Xinjiang is constrained in the boarding school, Uyghur youths are able to develop independent and new social capital to facilitate their schooling. Nonetheless, they lack "bridging social capital," which makes the goal of ethnic integration more difficult to achieve. Book jacket.

Author : Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0809322870

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Troping the Body by Gwendolyn Audrey Foster Pdf

Troping the Body: Gender, Etiquette, and Performance is an interdisciplinary study of etiquette texts, conduct literature, and advice books and films. GwendolynAudrey Foster analyzes the work of such women authors as Emily Post, Christine de Pizan, Hannah Webster Foster, Emily Brontë, Frances E. W. Harper, and Martha Stewart as well as such women filmmakers as Lois Weber and Kasi Lemmons. "Specifically," Foster notes, "I was interested in the possibility of locating power and agency in the voices of popular etiquette writers." Her investigation led her to analyze etiquette and conduct literature from the Middle Ages to the present. Within this wide scope, she redefines the boundaries of conduct literature through a theoretical examination of the gendered body as it is positioned in conduct books, etiquette texts, poetry, fiction, and film. Drawing on Bakhtin, Gates, Foucault, and the new school of performative feminism to develop an interdisciplinary approach to conduct literature--and literature as conduct--Foster brings a unique perspective to the analysis of ways in which the body has been gendered, raced, and constructed in terms of class and sexuality. Even though women writers have been actively writing conduct and etiquette texts since the medieval period, few critical examinations of such literature exist in the fields of cultural studies and literary criticism. Thus, Foster's study fills a gap and does so uniquely in the existing literature. In examining these voices of authority over the body, Foster identifies the dialogic in the texts of this discipline that both supports and disrupts the hegemonic discourse of a gendered social order.

Author : Lisa Lutz
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781984818249

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The Swallows by Lisa Lutz Pdf

A teacher at a New England prep school ignites a gender war—with deadly consequences—in this dark and provocative novel by the bestselling author of The Passenger “Riveting . . . full of imagination and power.”—Caroline Kepnes, author of You and Providence NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NEW YORK • WINNER OF THE ALA’S ALEX AWARD When Alexandra Witt joins the faculty at Stonebridge Academy, she’s hoping to put a painful past behind her. Then one of her creative writing assignments generates some disturbing responses from students. Before long, Alex is immersed in an investigation of the students atop the school’s social hierarchy—and their connection to something called the Darkroom. She soon inspires the girls who’ve started to question the school’s “boys will be boys” attitude and incites a resistance. But just as the movement is gaining momentum, Alex attracts the attention of an unknown enemy who knows a little too much about her—and what brought her to Stonebridge in the first place. Meanwhile, Gemma, a defiant senior, has been plotting her attack for years, waiting for the right moment. Shy loner Norman hates his role in the Darkroom, but can’t find the courage to fight back until he makes an unlikely alliance. And then there’s Finn Ford, an English teacher with a shady reputation, who keeps one eye on his literary ambitions and one on Ms. Witt. As the school’s secrets begin to trickle out, a boys-versus-girls skirmish turns into an all-out war, with deeply personal—and potentially fatal—consequences for everyone involved. Lisa Lutz’s blistering, timely tale of revenge and disruption shows us what can happen when silence wins out over decency for too long—and why the scariest threat of all might be the idea that sooner or later, girls will be girls. Praise for The Swallows “The Swallows is fast-moving, darkly humorous and at times shockingly vicious. The battle of the sexes within its pages couldn’t be more compelling. . . . Lutz delivers a frantic, morbidly funny story.”—BookPage “A decade before the #MeToo movement kicks off in full force, women are coming for the patriarchy in this big ol’ novel, ripe with idiosyncratic characterization and memorable scenes.”—Refinery29

Author : Beth McMullen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781481490221

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Mrs. Smith's Spy School for Girls by Beth McMullen Pdf

A girl discovers her boarding school is actually an elite spy-training program, and she must learn the skills of the trade in order to find her mother in this action-packed middle grade debut that’s perfect for fans of Stu Gibbs. After a botched escape plan from her boarding school, Abigail is stunned to discover the school is actually a cover for an elite spy ring called The Center, along with being training grounds for future spies. Even more shocking? Abigail’s mother is a top agent for The Center and she has gone MIA, with valuable information that many people would like to have—at any cost. Along with a former nemesis and charming boy from her grade, Abigail goes through a crash course in Spy Training 101, often with hilarious—and sometimes painful—results. But Abigail realizes she might be a better spy-in-training than she thought—and the answers to her mother’s whereabouts are a lot closer than she thinks…

Author : Madeleine L'Engle
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781667682976

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And Both Were Young by Madeleine L'Engle Pdf

When 15-year-old Flip is sent to boarding school in Switzerland, she struggles to fit in and make friends. But a chance encounter with a mysterious boy named Paul gives her hope. As their secret friendship grows, Paul confides in Flip about his fragmented memories of his childhood during WWII. When a sinister man appears claiming to be Paul's father, Flip bravely takes matters into her own hands to protect her friend. Her act of courage will change her life forever in this poignant coming-of-age story set amidst the majestic Swiss Alps.

Author : Ashley Thomson,Sylvie Lafortune
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999-09-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781554881826

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The Handbook of Canadian Boarding Schools by Ashley Thomson,Sylvie Lafortune Pdf

Private schools have frequently provided innovative, experimental, and creative programunavailable to students in the public system. The most successful have survived and expanded by offering an educational experience widely perceived to be not just as good as that available in the public system, but better. In Canada, private schools are enjoying an unprecedented popularity and while most are day-only, over sixty sustain boarding programs, as do two off-shore Canadian schools. The Handbook of Canadian Boarding Schools presents information on the educational environment of each province,then offers comparative information on each boarding school. The information on each school includes: basic data, location, history, philosophy, the campus, boarding facilities, health and safety, administration and faculty, student body and student conduct, academic calendar and program, information technology, student activities and student conduct, admission and costs. The Handbook also supplies several appendices outlining important programs often available through boarding schools, such as Advanced Placement courses and the International Baccalaureate. For parents in Canada and abroad about to commit substantial sums to their children’s education, the Handbook of Canadian Boarding Schools is an essential tool to help them make the right decision. It is also an indispensable resource for supporters of the public system looking for ideas that have worked elsewhere.

Author : Kendra James
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781538753491

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Admissions by Kendra James Pdf

NAMED A BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF 2022 BY ESQUIRE “[C]harming and surprising. . . The work of Admissions is laying down, with wit and care, the burden James assumed at 15, that she — or any Black student, or all Black students — would manage the failures of a racially illiterate community. . . The best depiction of elite whiteness I’ve read.”—New York Times A Most Anticipated Book by Vogue.com · Parade · Town & Country · Nylon ·New York Post · Lit Hub · BookRiot · Electric Literature · Glamour · Marie Claire · Publishers Weekly · Bustle · Fodor's Travel· Business Insider · Pop Sugar · InsideHook · SheReads Early on in Kendra James’ professional life, she began to feel like she was selling a lie. As an admissions officer specializing in diversity recruitment for independent prep schools, she persuaded students and families to embark on the same perilous journey she herself had made—to attend cutthroat and largely white schools similar to The Taft School, where she had been the first African-American legacy student only a few years earlier. Her new job forced her to reflect on her own elite education experience, and to realize how disillusioned she had become with America’s inequitable system. In ADMISSIONS, Kendra looks back at the three years she spent at Taft, chronicling clashes with her lily-white roommate, how she had to unlearn the respectability politics she'd been raised with, and the fall-out from a horrifying article in the student newspaper that accused Black and Latinx students of being responsible for segregation of campus. Through these stories, some troubling, others hilarious, she deconstructs the lies and half-truths she herself would later tell as an admissions professional, in addition to the myths about boarding schools perpetuated by popular culture. With its combination of incisive social critique and uproarious depictions of elite nonsense, ADMISSIONS will resonate with anyone who has ever been The Only One in a room, dealt with racial microaggressions, or even just suffered from an extreme case of homesickness.

Author : Clint Adams
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 138772178X

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Boarding School by Clint Adams Pdf

Told from the actual events endured by the author while he lived at the first of the four boarding schools he attended as a youth, Boarding School is a fictionalized account of the friendships, the desperation, the constant presence of evil and the inspiring way in which the author succeeded in eventually rising above it all. Not for the faint of heart, the reader should be prepared for a hash story about an often ignored aspect of our culture.