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Maximum Security (Paperback, New edition) Loot Price: R980
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Maximum Security (Paperback, New edition): John Devine

Maximum Security (Paperback, New edition)

John Devine

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Escalations in student violence continue throughout the nation, but inner-city schools are the hardest hit, with classrooms and corridors infected by the anger, aggression, and criminality endemic to street life. Technological surveillance, security personnel, and paramilitary control tactics to maintain order and safety are the common administrative response. Essential educational programs are routinely slashed from school budgets, even as the number of guards, cameras, and metal detectors continues to multiply.
Based on years of frontline experience in New York's inner-city schools, "Maximum Security" demonstrates that such policing strategies are not only ineffectual, they divorce students and teachers from their ethical and behavioral responsibilities. Exploring the culture of violence from within, John Devine argues that the security system, with its uniformed officers and invasive high-tech surveillance, has assumed presumptive authority over students' bodies and behavior, negating the traditional roles of teachers as guardians and agents of moral instruction. The teacher is reduced to an information bureaucrat, a purveyor of technical knowledge, while the student's physical well-being and ethical actions are left to the suspect scrutiny of electronic devices and security specialists with no pedagogical mission, training, or interest. The result is not a security system at all, but an insidious institutional disengagement from the caring supervision of the student body.
With uncompromising honesty, Devine provides a powerful portrayal of an educational system in crisis and bold new insight into the malignant culture of school violence.

General

Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: 1997
First published: 1997
Authors: John Devine
Dimensions: 156 x 235 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 296
Edition: New edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-14387-3
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > Behavioural theory (Behaviourism)
Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General
Books > Social sciences > Education > Schools > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Violence in society > General
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LSN: 0-226-14387-2
Barcode: 9780226143873

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