Focusing on the phenomena of the Surveillance School, Taylor examines the increased presence of surveillance technologies and practices which identify, verify, categorise and track pupils, exploring the impact that invasive and continual monitoring is having upon school children.

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Australian National University, Australia

Emmeline Taylor

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Emmeline Taylor is a Lecturer in Sociology at the Australian National University. She specialises in surveillance, crime and criminal justice and has been mapping, with increasing concern, the integration of surveillance practices into pedagogical apparatus in schools over the past decade.

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Book Title: Surveillance Schools
Book Subtitle: Security, Discipline and Control in Contemporary Education
Authors: Emmeline Taylor
Series Title: Crime Prevention and Security Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137308863
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-30885-6Published: 16 October 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-30886-3Published: 15 October 2013
Series ISSN: 2946-3513
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3521
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 139
Topics: Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Policing, Crime and Society, Education Policy, Sociology, general, Sociology of Education

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

Surveillance Schools: A New Era in Education

Vision of Control: A Case Study on School CCTV

Lessons in Submission? The Societal Impacts of Surveillance Schools

Panoptic Pedagogy and the Political Economy of Surveillance Schools

Conclusion

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