Schools Under Surveillance - Cultures of Control in Public Education

Informationen zum Autor Monahan, Torin Klappentext Schools under Surveillance gathers together some of the very best researchers studying surveillance and discipline in contemporary public schools. Essays cover a broad range of topics including police and military recruiters on campus! testing and accountability regimes such as No Child Left Behind! and efforts by students and teachers to circumvent the most egregious forms of surveillance in public education. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionPart I New Disciplinary Orders To Protect, Serve, and Mentor? Police Officers in Public Schools School Surveillance in America The Docile Body in School SpacePart II Schools as Markets Safety or Social Control? The Security Fortification of Schools in a Capitalist Society Online Surveillance in Canadian Schools "School Ownership is the Goal"Part III Security Cultures Reading, Writing and Readiness Risky Youth and the Psychology of SurveillancePart IV Accountability Regimes "Politics by Other Means" The Measure of Success Lying, Cheating and Teaching to the TestPart V Everyday Resistance Scan This Seductions of Risk, Social Control and Resistance to School Surveillance

Product details

• Authors: Torin (EDT)/ Torres Monahan
• Assisted by: Torin Monahan (Editor), Rodolfo D Torres (Editor), Rodolfo D. Torres (Editor)
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2009
• EAN: 9780813546803
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-4680-3
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Critical Issues in Crime and S; Critical Issues in Crime and S
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories