| Schools Under Surveillance: Cultures of Control in Public Education Contributor(s): Monahan, Torin (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0813546796 ISBN-13: 9780813546797 Publisher: Rutgers University Press OUR PRICE: $148.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2009 Annotation: "Schools under Surveillance" gathers together some of the very best researchers studying surveillance and discipline in contemporary public schools. Surveillance is not simply about monitoring or tracking individuals and their dataait is about the structuring of power relations through human, technical, or hybrid control mechanisms. Essays cover a broad range of topics including police and military recruiters on campus, testing and accountability regimes such as No Child Left Behind, and efforts by students and teachers to circumvent the most egregious forms of surveillance in public education. Each contributor is committed to the continued critique of the disparity and inequality in the use of surveillance to target and sort students along lines of race, class, and gender. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects - Education | Administration - General - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 371.782 |
| LCCN: 2009006045 |
| Series: Critical Issues in Crime and Society |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6" W x 9" (1.19 lbs) 264 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Schools under Surveillance gathers together some of the very best researchers studying surveillance and discipline in contemporary public schools. Surveillance is not simply about monitoring or tracking individuals and their data it is about the structuring of power relations through human, technical, or hybrid control mechanisms. Essays cover a broad range of topics including police and military recruiters on campus, testing and accountability regimes such as No Child Left Behind, and efforts by students and teachers to circumvent the most egregious forms of surveillance in public education. Each contributor is committed to the continued critique of the disparity and inequality in the use of surveillance to target and sort students along lines of race, class, and gender. |