Surveillance Schools: Security, Discipline and Control in Contemporary Education

by Emmeline Taylor

Book Overview

With the growth of surveillance technologies globally, Taylor focuses on the phenomenon of the Surveillance School and explores the impact that continual monitoring is having upon school children, education and society. Surveillance Schools are characterised by routine practices that identify, verify, categorise and track pupils. With biometric technologies such as fingerprinting and iris scanning, CCTV, microchips in ID cards and 'smart uniforms',...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137308850
• ISBN13: 9781137308856
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 139 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"