Ambition : for what / Deborah L. Rhode.

By:

Rhode, Deborah L [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Oxford scholarship onlinePublisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021Description: 1 online resource (336 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780197538364 (ebook) :

Subject(s):

Ambition

Additional physical formats: Print version :: No titleDDC classification:

179.9 23

LOC classification:

BJ1533.A4 R46 2021

Online resources:

Oxford scholarship online

Summary: This is a lively account of ambition, and the forces driving and constraining it. It explores the toxic aspect of preoccupations with recognition, power and money, and how society, families and schools can help shape positive ambition. The book also It also explores the influence of gender, race, class, and national origin, and prods individuals to think more deeply about the forces driving their ambitions and whether those ambitions meet their deepest needs and aspirations.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

This is a lively account of ambition, and the forces driving and constraining it. It explores the toxic aspect of preoccupations with recognition, power and money, and how society, families and schools can help shape positive ambition. The book also It also explores the influence of gender, race, class, and national origin, and prods individuals to think more deeply about the forces driving their ambitions and whether those ambitions meet their deepest needs and aspirations.

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Ambition : for what / Deborah L. Rhode.