Schools Under Surveillance: Cultures of Control in Public Education

by Torin Monahan (Editor), Rodolfo Torres (Editor), Aaron Kupchik (Contribution by), Nicole Bracy (Contribution by), Michael Apple (Contribution by)

Overview

Schools under Surveillance gathers together some of the very best researchers studying surveillance and discipline in contemporary public schools. Surveillance is not simply about monitoring or tracking individuals and their data-it is about the structuring of power relations through human, technical, or hybrid control mechanisms. Essays cover a broad range of topics including police and military recruiters on campus, testing and accountability regimes such as No Child Left Behind, and efforts by students and teachers to circumvent the most egregious forms of surveillance in public education. Each contributor is committed to the continued critique of the disparity and inequality in the use of surveillance to target and sort students along lines of race, class, and gender.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813548265
Publisher:	Rutgers University Press
Publication date:	10/13/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	264
File size:	424 KB

About the Author

Torin Monahan is an associate professor of human and organizational development at the Peabody College of Education and Human Development and an associate professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University. He is the editor and author of several books, including Surveillance and Security: Technological Politics and Power in Everyday Life.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I New Disciplinary Orders
To Protect, Serve, and Mentor? Police Officers in Public Schools
School Surveillance in America
The Docile Body in School Space
Part II Schools as Markets
Safety or Social Control? The Security Fortification of Schools in a Capitalist Society
Online Surveillance in Canadian Schools
"School Ownership is the Goal"
Part III Security Cultures
Reading, Writing and Readiness
Risky Youth and the Psychology of Surveillance
Part IV Accountability Regimes
"Politics by Other Means"
The Measure of Success
Lying, Cheating and Teaching to the Test
Part V Everyday Resistance
Scan This
Seductions of Risk, Social Control and Resistance to School Surveillance

Editorial Reviews

"After reading Schools Under Surveillance one is forever impacted by the gripping ethnographic moments of multiple school contexts where surveillance is embodied and resisted. This book is a must read for undergraduate and graduate students in sociology, anthropology, psychology and education interested in the issues of social control, culture, power and resistance in schools."

Contemporary Sociology

"This volume's interdisciplinarity makes the collection a provocative and stimulating reflection on cultures of control but also provides a brilliant overview of creative forms of resistance."

Surveillance and Society

"A fascinating and sophisticated look at the structure of power relations present in the security practices of public education. Focusing on 'the other side' of school safety policies which typically do not fully consider the effects of various control mechanisms, Schools Under Surveillance represents a major addition to the literature that will undoubtedly be of great value to scholars, practitioners, and policy makers alike."

University of California, Irvine - Henry Pontell

"A thought-provoking anthology."

H-Education

"Schools under Surveillance raises a set of important and critical questions about how public schools have become one of the most surveilled of contemporary spaces. Monahan and Torres have put together a fine collection of provocative work that captures the essence of these new school accountability regimes."

author of Everyday Surveillance: Vigilance and Visibility in Postmodern Life - William G. Staples