Police in the hallways
Subtitle: discipline in an urban high school
By: Kathleen Nolan ; foreword by Paul Willis
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780816675524; 9780816675531
Subjects: Urban high schools; School discipline
Description: Explores the impact of policing and punitive disciplinary policies on the students and their educational experience. From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: studying urban school discipline: a Bronx tale; title: How the police took over school discipline: from policies of inclusion to punishment and exclusion; title: Signs of the times: place, culture, and control at urban public high school; title: Instituting the culture of control: disciplinary practices and order maintenance; title: Against the law: student noncompliance and contestation; title: Tensions between educational approaches and discourses of control; title: The underlife: oppositional behavior at urban public high school; title: Living proof: experiences of economic and educational exclusion; title: Conclusion: recommendations for effective urban schooling and sound discipline.