Rhetoric, Embodiment, and the Ethos of Surveillance : Student Bodies in the American High School Hardback
by Jennifer Young
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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.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:158 pages
- Publisher:Lexington Books
- Publication Date:14/06/2017
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- ISBN:9781498555999
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:158 pages
- Publisher:Lexington Books
- Publication Date:14/06/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9781498555999