Rhetoric, Embodiment, and the Ethos of Surveillance
- Student Bodies in the American High School
- Format
- E-bog, ePub
- Engelsk
- 158 sider
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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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- SprogEngelsk
- Sidetal158
- Udgivelsesdato30-06-2017
- ISBN139781498556002
- Forlag Lexington Books
- FormatePub
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