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School Surveillance, Control, and Resistance in the United Kingdom
This chapter outlines the development of the current socio-political context within which U.K. schools experience surveillance and implement their security and disciplinary procedures. Schools are suggested to have developed their approaches to social control against a background of neoliberalism and audit culture. This involves the marketisation of much of the school system through an ‘academisation’ process; linked to this is an increased surveillance of teachers and students through datafication, CCTV and other digital means. Another form of surveillance- biopolitical control in schools- shows itself through the traditionalisation of gendered school uniform and the increasing pathologisation of the behaviour of ethnic minorities
Evidence for Charge Transfer and Impact of Solvent Polar Properties on Aminobenzonitrile Adsorption on Silver Nanostructures
Aminobenzonitrile adsorption on silver nanoparticles
(SNPs) was
studied with SERS, SEIRA, and DFT. It was found that 4-aminobenzonitrile
(4ABN) and 2-aminobenzonitirle (2ABN) could resonantly distribute
an amino group charge so that the cyano group could strongly interact
with the SNPs in the mono/multilayer. Cyano stretching frequency shifts
in SEIRA spectra showed that a 4ABN multilayer interacted strongly
with the SNPs when deposited using an alkane solvent with nonpolar
bonds. 2ABN could interact with the SNPs even when deposition occurred
using a solvent with polar bonds because intramolecular hydrogen-bonding
in 2ABN limited solvation. 3-Aminobenzonitrile (3ABN) never interacted
strongly with the SNPs in the multilayer because it could not resonantly
distribute the amino group charge. 2ABN also formed C–H hydrogen-bonds
with <i>n</i>-heptane, which could interact with both the
amino and cyano groups of 2ABN. Charge transfer between adsorbed ABN
isomers and the SNPs is evidenced in SERS spectra by the presence
of nontotally symmetric vibrational bands that do not appear intense
in Raman spectra of the ABN powders. It is anticipated that this work
will affect applications where interactions of benzonitrile compounds
with metal nanoparticles is important
From power struggle to benevolent authority and empathic limit-setting: Creating inclusive school practice with excluded students through action research
Recent trends in school social control in sub-Saharan Africa
This chapter draws from existing literature, analysis of school policy texts and codes of discipline, to examine the context and history of school social control in sub-Saharan Africa using some evidence from Ghana. It highlights how school hierarchies, institutional surveillance mechanisms, and the code of discipline produce school social control in the sub-Saharan Africa context. It discusses school hierarchical organization as a mechanism for control based on a case study in Ghana. The discussion examines how teachers’ own schooling and training experiences make them agents of school social control and how corporal punishment plays a key role concluding with the role that foreign languages play in controlling access to further education and future social and economic opportunities