| Rhetoric, Embodiment, and the Ethos of Surveillance: Student Bodies in the American High School Contributor(s): Young, Jennifer (Author) |
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ISBN: 1498555993 ISBN-13: 9781498555999 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $109.89 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Secondary |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.97 lbs) 158 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |