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

Student Bodies in the American High School

Jennifer Young (Autor)

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2017
158 Seiten
Bloomsbury Publishing (USA) (Verlag)
979-8-216-30173-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.6.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Sekundarstufe I+II
• ISBN-13: 979-8-216-30173-8 / 9798216301738