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.
Author(s): Torin Monahan, Rodolfo D. Torres
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 264
Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 10
Part I: New Disciplinary Orders: Police, Surveillance, and Inequality in the Carceral School......Page 28
1 To Protect, Serve, and Mentor? Police Officers in Public Schools......Page 30
2 School Surveillance in America: Disparate and Unequal......Page 47
3 The Docile Body in School Space......Page 64
Part II: Schools as Markets: Selling Security, Buying Students......Page 80
4 Safety or Social Control? The Security Fortification of Schools in a Capitalist Society......Page 82
5 Online Surveillance in Canadian Schools......Page 96
6 “School Ownership Is the Goal”: Military Recruiting, Public Schools, and Fronts of War......Page 113
Part III: Security Cultures: Preparing for the Worst......Page 130
7 Reading, Writing, and Readiness......Page 132
8 Risky Youth and the Psychology of Surveillance: The Crisis of the School Shooter......Page 149
Part IV: Accountability Regimes: Tests, Standards, and
Audits as Surveillance......Page 166
9 “Politics by Other Means”: Education Accountability and the Surveillance State......Page 168
10 The Measure of Success: Education, Markets, and an Audit Culture......Page 184
11 Lying, Cheating, and Teaching to the Test: The Politics of Surveillance Under No Child Left Behind......Page 203
Part V: Everyday Resistance: Contesting Systems of Control......Page 220
12 Scan This: Examining Student Resistance to School Surveillance......Page 222
13 Seductions of Risk, Social Control, and Resistance to School Surveillance......Page 239
Contributors......Page 256
Index......Page 262
