Student drug testing and the surveillance school economy
An analysis of media representation and policy transfer in Australian schools
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11489151 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emmeline Taylor (0000-0003-2664-2194, University of Surrey, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 383-397 |
| Publication date | 2018-05-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Education Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0268-0939 • E-ISSN: 1464-5106 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02680939.2017.1337228 |
| OpenAlex | W2624629194 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 34 |
Anxieties relating to the health, safety and security of schoolchildren have been met with a variety of surveillance apparatus in schools internationally. Drawing on findings from a content analysis of newspaper reports relating to drug testing in Australian schools, this article seeks to excavate the ways in which the media shapes, informs, reflects and instructs narratives pertaining to the use and acceptability of surveillance. Finding that a ‘greater good’ discourse prevails in debates about drug testing in schools, contrary to evidence purporting its ineffectiveness, it is argued that the phenomenon can be explained by the rapidly emerging surveillance school economy whereby education is increasingly exposed to neoliberal corporate priorities and governmental imperatives. Further, finding that policy transfer goes some way to explaining the suggested introduction of random drug testing programs in Australian schools, the article provides critical analysis to understand how surveillance practices come to be activated, understood and negotiated as they cross national boundaries
Content analysis · Critical discourse analysis · Discourse analysis · Epistemology · Ideology · Media studies · Narrative · Newspaper · Phenomenon · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Representation (politics · Social science · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Education Discipline and Inequality · Educational Assessment and Improvement · Law
Networks, new governance and education
Methods of Text and Discourse Analysis
The Penalisation of Poverty and the rise of Neo-Liberalism
The New Politics of Surveillance and Visibility
A Coefficient of Agreement for Nominal Scales
We don’t have no drugs education”
Who Learns What from Whom
Policy borrowing, policy learning
This is not America’
Media, communication and the establishment of public camera surveillance programmes in Canada
Neoliberalizing Space
The Banality of Security
Urban Policy Mobilities and Global Circuits of Knowledge
The practice of social research
The New Governance
Understanding Cross National Policy Transfers
Unsettling Settler Societies
Mobilizing policy
Political Economies of Scale
Who's Watching
I Spy with My Little Eye
| Citations per year | 0.57 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2023 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |