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Book SynopsisHyper-secure school buildings, surveillance cameras, and lockdown drills are taking a toll on students in American high schools, and they don’t guarantee safety. This book discusses how we’ve ended up where we are and suggests that rhetoric and empathy can be employed in ways that render schools safer than technological security measures do.
Trade ReviewYoung provides a thorough analysis of the ways in which we position, police, and regulate student bodies. Reading everything from policies to architecture, Young persuasively illustrates the real and immediate need for a more nuanced understanding of the impact of embodiments in secondary education settings. -- A. Abby Knoblauch, Kansas State University
Jennifer Young’s book is an exemplary application of critical discourse analysis to the plight of young people who too often feel “imprisoned” in our schools. Her savvy and illuminating analyses are fully in the service of ending business as usual and getting on with a badly needed paradigm change in school and society. -- James Paul Gee, Arizona State University
From dress codes to lockdowns to discipline policies, this book provides an insightful look at the modern-day high school and its increasingly troubling practices. The author’s experiences provide her with a unique position to not only survey these practices but dissect them as well with penetrating results. -- Joseph M. Piro, Long Island University
Table of ContentsContents Chapter 1: “This Place is a Prison” Chapter 2: Just Show Up (Or Else): Overzealous and Under-meaningful Attendance Codes Chapter 3: Let’s All Focus on What the Girls Are Wearing: Dress Codes Run Amok Chapter 4: The “Strange and Paradoxical”: Comedy and Contradiction in Student Handbooks Chapter 5: The School Building: Body of the Student Body Chapter 6: The “Zero Tolerance” Paradox: Empathy and Embodiment Appendix A: CDA Questions Derived from Gee’s “Tasks” and “Tools” (generic) Appendix B: CDA Questions Derived from Gee’s “Tasks” and “Tools” (specific to dress codes) Appendix C: School Mission Statements Appendix D: Ohio Revised Code Regarding Mandatory Attendance Bibliography About the Author
