Saturday 14 April 2018

Discussion of an authoritarian zero tolerance school

Little robots: behind the scenes in an academy school. An ethnographic study of a 'flagship'academy school with zero tolerance revealing bullying, regimentation, coercion, leading to a toxic environment in which only the compliant can remain. This is the opposite to what we argue, the spectre we argue against.

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/little-robots-behind-the-scenes-at-an-academy-school

An excellent review by Les Back (Goldsmiths) here treating discipline here to a psychological version of corporal punishment (caning).