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.

Autorentext
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.

Inhalt
Preface Introduction 1. Surveillance Schools: A New Era in Education 2. Visions of Control: A Case Study on School CCTV 3. Lessons in Submission? The Societal Impacts of Surveillance Schools 4. Panoptic Pedagogy and the Political Economy of Surveillance Schools Conclusion