Lexington Books
Pages: 158
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Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-4985-5599-9 • Hardback • June 2017 • $117.00 • (£90.00)
978-1-4985-5600-2 • eBook • June 2017 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
Jennifer Young is assistant professor of English at Tiffin University.
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
Young provides a thorough analysis of the ways in which we position, police, and regulate student bodies. Reading everything from policies to architecture, Young persuasively illustrates the real and immediate need for a more nuanced understanding of the impact of embodiments in secondary education settings.
— A. Abby Knoblauch, Kansas State University
Jennifer Young’s book is an exemplary application of critical discourse analysis to the plight of young people who too often feel “imprisoned” in our schools. Her savvy and illuminating analyses are fully in the service of ending business as usual and getting on with a badly needed paradigm change in school and society.
— James Paul Gee, Arizona State University
From dress codes to lockdowns to discipline policies, this book provides an insightful look at the modern-day high school and its increasingly troubling practices. The author’s experiences provide her with a unique position to not only survey these practices but dissect them as well with penetrating results.
— Joseph M. Piro, Long Island University