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The prison path : school practices that hurt our youth / Christen E. Clemson.
Van Pelt Library LB3012.2 .C54 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clemson, Christen E., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- School management and organization--United States.
- School management and organization.
- United States.
- School environment--United States.
- School environment.
- School discipline--United States.
- School discipline.
- Youth with social disabilities--Education--United States.
- Youth with social disabilities.
- Youth with social disabilities--Education.
- Imprisonment--United States.
- Imprisonment.
- Prisons--United States.
- Prisons.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 151 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]
- Summary:
- The Prison Path: School Practices that Hurt Our Youth takes a unique and unapologetic look into the practices, social norms, construction, and policies within our schools that mirror prisons. From the physical building to the labeling and placement of special education students, schools are reflecting correctional institutions. Beyond the mundane and into the world of social cliques, discipline policies, uniforms, and ethics, this book highlights how similarities between schools and prisons create a hidden and dangerous environment for at-risk students. While many schools and teachers are doing the best they can while facing budget shortfalls, it is the inherent policies, procedures, and normalities that are thought of as being part of the school experience, that may be the most hazardous for at-risk students. Therefore, this book highlights these occurrences and juxtaposes them with similar situations within prisons, providing an eye-opening and daunting look at prisons and schools. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Why We Do What We Do 1
- 2 Prison: The Historical Underpinnings 15
- 3 Endow, Judge, and Accept: The Power and Morality of the Institution 29
- 4 Special Education or Prison Sentence 43
- 5 Space, Place, and the Power of the Box 59
- 6 High School Clique or Prison Gang 73
- 7 Why Me?: Ethics, Ethical Leadership, and the Danger of Its Absence 89
- 8 Charter Schools versus Private Prisons 103
- 9 School Discipline and Juvenile Justice: One and the Same? 117
- 10 Our Future 131.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781610489799
- 1610489799
- 9781610489805
- 1610489802
- OCLC:
- 894105559
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