Homeroom Security: School Discipline in an Age of Fear (Youth, Crime, and Justice)
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (730 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 081474821X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 274 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-01 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Our schools and our students can and should be safe, and Homeroom Security offers real strategies for making them so.. While most educators, students, and parents accept these harsh policing and punishment strategies based on the assumption that they keep children safe, Aaron Kupchik argues that we need to think more carefully about how we protect and punish students.In Homeroom Security, Kupchik shows that these policies lead schools to prioritize the rules instead of students, so that students’ real problems—often the very reasons for their misbehavior—get ignored. Based on years of impressive field research, Kupchik demonstrates that the policies we have zealously adopted in schools across the country are the opposite of the strategies that are known to successfully reduce student misbehavior and violence
This is research of prime quality that is readable and rigorous on an issue of extraordinary public importance and interest.”-Jonathan Simon,author of Governing through Crime "Homeroom Security persuasively raises alarm over the arbitrary and pernicious rules to which students are subjected. Kupchik warns that such practices run the risk of creating docile subjects rather than critical citizens, an essential ingredient for a strong democracy.”-Social Forces"Kupchik provides a compelling and detailed overview of the current discipline environment in today's schools Kupchik builds the case that the recent law-and-order approach t
Very informational with many different examples Aaron Kupchik does a compelling job of portraying his opinion on homeroom secuirty and gives many different examples of it. Homeroom Secuirty: School Discipline in an Age of Fear does it's job explaining the different security throughout schools.The book made it interesting to see the various forms of security implemented in schools and whether or not they help control discipline problems. The many "real" examples given throughout the duration of the novel made it enjoyable for me to read.