Rhetoric, Embodiment, and the Ethos of Surveillance (eBook)

Student Bodies in the American High School

Jennifer Young (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
158 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-5600-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Hyper-secure school buildings, surveillance cameras, and lockdown drills are taking a toll on students in American high schools, and they don’t guarantee safety. This book discusses how we’ve ended up where we are and suggests that rhetoric and empathy can be employed in ways that render schools safer than technological security measures do.

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Rhetoric, Embodiment, and the Ethos of Surveillance: Student Bodies in the American High School investigates the rhetorical tension between controlling student bodies and educating student minds. The book is a rhetorical analysis of the policies and procedures that govern life in contemporary American high schools; it also discusses the rhetorical effects of high-security, high-surveillance school buildings. It uncovers various metaphors that emerge from a close reading of the system, such as students' claims that "e;school is a prison."e; Jennifer Young concludes that many of the policies governing contemporary American high schools have come to rhetorically operate as a "e;discourse of default"e; that works against the highest aims of education, and she offers a method of effecting a cultural shift for going forward. Specifically, Young calls for an explicit application of intentional rhetoric to match discourse to audience and suggests that the development of empathy as a core value within the high school might be more effective in keeping students safe than the architectural and technological approaches we currently employ.

Autor

Jennifer Young is assistant professor of English at Tiffin University.

Inhalt

Chapter 2: Just Show Up (Or Else): Overzealous and Under-meaningful Attendance CodesChapter 4: The “Strange and Paradoxical”: Comedy and Contradiction in Student HandbooksAppendix A: CDA Questions Derived from Gee’s “Tasks” and “Tools” (generic)codes)Appendix C:School Mission StatementsAppendix D:Ohio Revised Code Regarding Mandatory AttendanceBibliographyAbout the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.6.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 11 Illustrations including: - 9 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 2 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Schulbuch / Allgemeinbildende Schulen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Sekundarstufe I+II
• Schlagworte: Attendance codes • Communication • Discourse analysis • Dress Codes • Embodiment Theories • Empathy • high school reform • Primary metaphors • rhetoric • School architecture • school security • Student Bodies • Zero tolerance policies
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-5600-0 / 1498556000
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-5600-2 / 9781498556002