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Rhetoric, Embodiment, and the Ethos of Surveillance

Student Bodies in the American High School
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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.
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
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