{"product_id":"9781498556002","title":"Rhetoric, Embodiment, and the Ethos of Surveillance: Student Bodies in the American High School","description":"Rhetoric, Embodiment, and the Ethos of Surveillance: Student Bodies in the American High School investigates the rhetorical tension between controlling student bodies and educating student minds. The book is a rhetorical analysis of the policies and procedures that govern life in contemporary American high schools; it also discusses the rhetorical effects of high-security, high-surveillance school buildings. It uncovers various metaphors that emerge from a close reading of the system, such as students’ claims that “school is a prison.” Jennifer Young concludes that many of the policies governing contemporary American high schools have come to rhetorically operate as a “discourse of default” that works against the highest aims of education, and she offers a method of effecting a cultural shift for going forward. Specifically, Young calls for an explicit application of intentional rhetoric to match discourse to audience and suggests that the development of empathy as a core value within the high school might be more effective in keeping students safe than the architectural and technological approaches we currently employ.","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47181553991920,"sku":"9781498556002","price":85.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781498556002_p0.jpg?v=1769896713","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781498556002","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}