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Punishing schools : fear and citizenship in American public education / William Lyons and Julie Drew.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lyons, William, 1960-
- Series:
- Law, meaning, and violence
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education and state--Ohio--Case studies.
- Education and state.
- School violence--Ohio--Prevention--Case studies.
- School violence.
- High schools--Security measures--Ohio--Case studies.
- High schools.
- Social control--Ohio--Case studies.
- Social control.
- Security systems.
- Ohio.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (255 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2006.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- In a society increasingly dominated by zero-tolerance thinking, "Punishing Schools" argues that our educational system has become both the subject of legislative punishment and the instrument of punishment for children. Authors Lyons and Drew analyze the connections between a culture of economic punishment of our schools (by the diversion of funding to charter schools, the imposition of unfunded mandates, and the enforcement of dubious forms of teacher accountability) and the imposition by those schools of punitive controls on their own students - a vicious cycle that creates fear and encourages the development of passive and dependent citizens. Based on in-depth interviews and detailed analysis of official documents, newspapers, and popular texts, "Punishing Schools" offers a rich and incisive critique of our public education system and its role in our national political culture.
- Contents:
- Punishing schools and a zero tolerance culture
- Talking out of school : living and learning in suburbia
- Popular culture and public pedagogy : fear and identity in suburbia and Pleasantville
- Punitive politics and punishing schools
- The place of urban high school in central city political culture
- Zero tolerance culture : fear as punishment, patronage, and pedagogy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-249) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472021741
- 0472099051
- 0472069055
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.150092
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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