Jennifer Young

Rhetoric, Embodiment, and the Ethos of Surveillance (eBook, PDF)

Student Bodies in the American High School

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216301738
• Artikelnr.: 74845402

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Young is assistant professor of English at Tiffin University.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
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