ERIC Number: EJ908241
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2010-Dec
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Student Resistance to the Surveillance Curriculum
Hope, Andrew
International Studies in Sociology of Education, v20 n4 p319-334 Dec 2010
The growth of surveillance in UK schools in recent years has resulted in the development of what can be labelled as the surveillance curriculum. Operating through the overt and hidden curricula, contemporary surveillance practices and technologies not only engage students in a discourse of control, but also increasingly socialise them into a "culture of observation" in which they learn to watch and be watched, accepting unremitting monitoring as a norm. This paper examines how the surveillance curriculum operates through observation, discourse and simulation, before drawing upon elements of Gary Marx's typology of resistance to consider student responses to new surveillance technologies, such as CCTV and Internet monitoring devices. It is concluded that although the surveillance curriculum seeks to control, it also provides a space within which students can forge their own identities through playful resistance, (re)configuring the "algebra of surveillance".
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Observation, Internet, Educational Practices, Video Technology, Television, Hidden Curriculum, Socialization, Social Behavior, Behavior Standards, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Implementation, Resistance (Psychology), Student Reaction, Classification, Technology Uses in Education, Discipline Policy, School Policy, Educational Policy, Politics of Education, Educational Sociology, Compliance (Psychology), Educational Environment, Social Control, Law Enforcement, Mass Media Role, School Business Relationship, Interviews, High School Students
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education; High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom
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