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Rhetoric, embodiment, and the ethos of surveillance : student bodies in the American high school / Jennifer Young.
Van Pelt Library LB1607.5 .Y68 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Young, Jennifer, 1971- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961.
- Merleau-Ponty, Maurice.
- Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
- Foucault, Michel.
- Ahmed, Sara, 1969-.
- Ahmed, Sara.
- Education--Philosophy.
- Education.
- Education and state.
- Rhetoric.
- High school students--United States.
- High school students.
- United States.
- Critical discourse analysis.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 149 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017]
- Summary:
- 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 "school is a prison." Jennifer Young concludes that many of the policies governing contemporary American high schools have come to rhetorically operate as a "discourse of default" 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. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 "This Place Is a Prison" 1
- 2 "Just Show Up (Or Else)": Overzealous and Under-Meaningful Attendance Codes 17
- 3 Let's All Focus on What the Girls Are Wearing: Dress Codes Run Amok 41
- 4 The Strange and Paradoxical: Comedy and Contradiction in School Handbooks 71
- 5 The School Building: Body of the Student Body 77
- 6 The "Zero Tolerance" Paradox: Empathy and Embodiment 101.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-146) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1498555993
- 9781498555999
- OCLC:
- 983643268
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