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Based on years of frontline experience in New York's inner-city schools, this text seeks to demonstrate that intense policing and security strategies are not only ineffectual, they divorce students and teachers from their ethical and behavioural responsibilities.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Schools or "Schools"? Competing Discourses on Violence 2: Tutors, Mentors, Ethnographers 3: Foucault, Security Guards, and Indocile Bodies 4: Teachers and the "Marshmallow Effect" 5: Pedagogical Theory and the Mind/Body Duality 6: Violence: The Latest Curricular Specialty 7: "Youth's Youthfulness": An Alternate View 8: Remythologizing Inner-City Schooling Epilogue: A Jesuitical Fantasy Notes Bibliography Index

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 01/01/1997
      ISBN13: 9780226143873, 978-0226143873
      ISBN10: 0226143872
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      Educational administration and organization Schools and pre-schools Violence and abuse in society

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Based on years of frontline experience in New York's inner-city schools, this text seeks to demonstrate that intense policing and security strategies are not only ineffectual, they divorce students and teachers from their ethical and behavioural responsibilities.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Schools or "Schools"? Competing Discourses on Violence 2: Tutors, Mentors, Ethnographers 3: Foucault, Security Guards, and Indocile Bodies 4: Teachers and the "Marshmallow Effect" 5: Pedagogical Theory and the Mind/Body Duality 6: Violence: The Latest Curricular Specialty 7: "Youth's Youthfulness": An Alternate View 8: Remythologizing Inner-City Schooling Epilogue: A Jesuitical Fantasy Notes Bibliography Index

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