Maximum Security - The Culture of Violence in Inner-City Schools

Based on years of frontline experience in New York's inner-city schools, Maximum Security demonstrates that such policing strategies are not only ineffectual, they divorce students and teachers from their ethical and behavioral responsibilities.

List of contents

Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Schools or "Schools"? Competing Discourses on Violence 2: Tutors, Mentors, Ethnographers 3: Foucault, Security Guards, and Indocile Bodies 4: Teachers and the "Marshmallow Effect" 5: Pedagogical Theory and the Mind/Body Duality 6: Violence: The Latest Curricular Specialty 7: "Youth's Youthfulness": An Alternate View 8: Remythologizing Inner-City Schooling Epilogue: A Jesuitical Fantasy Notes Bibliography Index

Summary

Based on years of frontline experience in New York's inner-city schools, this text seeks to demonstrate that intense policing and security strategies are not only ineffectual, they divorce students and teachers from their ethical and behavioural responsibilities.

Product details

• Authors: John Devine, Devine John
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1997
• EAN: 9780226143873
• ISBN: 978-0-226-14387-3
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 15 mm x 23 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 425 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, EDUCATION / Administration / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Organization & management of education, Educational administration and organization, United States of America, USA, Behavioural theory (Behaviourism), Violence in society, Behaviourism, Behavioural theory, Schools, Violence and abuse in society, Schools and pre-schools, EDUCATION / Schools / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Behaviorism