A Physical Education: On Bullying, Discipline and Other Lessons

Taylor, Jonathan

  • 出版商: Goldsmiths Press
  • 出版日期: 2024-09-24
  • 售價: $1,080
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$1,026
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 232
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 1915983142
  • ISBN-13: 9781915983145
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商品描述

On bullying, discipline, and power in school and beyond.

What does it mean to be a bully? What does it feel like to be bullied--to be a victim, a pariah, a scapegoat? What are the techniques, patterns, and languages of bullying?

Intermingling memoir with literary criticism, philosophy, and sociology, A Physical Education attempts to answer these questions. A highly original examination of the uses and abuses of power in the education system, it explores how bullying and discipline function, how they differ from each other, and how they all too often overlap.

Taylor interweaves his own experiences with reflections on well-known literary representations of bullying and school discipline, alongside sociological, psychological, and philosophical theories of power. He discusses the transition from corporal punishment to psychological forms of discipline that took place in the UK in the 1980s, and he also investigates the divergences and convergences of physical, psychological, and linguistic bullying.

Above all, A Physical Education sets out to understand bullying and discipline from an experiential perspective: what these things feel like from "within," rather than "above," for all those involved. There are horrors, tragedies, and cyclical traumas, certainly--but there are also absurdities, contradictions, grotesque comedies. Sometimes, beneath the Gradgrindian tyranny, there is trickery, laughter. And sometimes there are chinks in The Wall, through which other possible worlds might be glimpsed.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

在校園及其外的霸凌、紀律與權力

什麼是霸凌者?被霸凌的感覺是什麼——作為受害者、被排斥者、替罪羊?霸凌的技術、模式和語言是什麼?

《體育教育》將回憶錄與文學批評、哲學和社會學交織在一起,試圖回答這些問題。這是一部對教育系統中權力使用與濫用的高度原創性檢視,探討霸凌和紀律如何運作,它們之間的差異,以及它們如何常常重疊。

泰勒將自己的經歷與對知名文學作品中霸凌和校園紀律的反思交織在一起,並結合社會學、心理學和哲學的權力理論。他討論了1980年代英國從體罰轉向心理紀律的過程,並調查了身體、心理和語言霸凌的差異與交集。

最重要的是,《體育教育》旨在從經驗的角度理解霸凌和紀律:這些事情對所有相關者來說,從“內部”而非“外部”的感受是什麼。當然,存在著恐怖、悲劇和循環的創傷——但也有荒謬、矛盾和怪誕的喜劇。有時,在格拉德格林式的暴政之下,隱藏著詭計和笑聲。而有時,牆壁上也會出現裂縫,透過這些裂縫,或許能窺見其他可能的世界。

作者簡介

Jonathan Taylor is an editor, lecturer and critic, and author of memoirs, fiction, and critical monographs. His most recent critical work is Laughter, Literature, Violence, 1840-1930. He is co-editor of the award-winning anthology, A Round of Drinking Stories. He was shortlisted for the Arnold Bennett Prize, 2018, and won Best Anthology in the Saboteur Awards, 2019. He has performed at events, conferences and festivals across the UK, as well as in Cyprus and the U.S. Jonathan has taught in higher education for over twenty years, and is now director of the MA in Creative Writing at the University of Leicester. He lives in Leicestershire with his wife and twin daughters.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

喬納森·泰勒(Jonathan Taylor)是一位編輯、講師和評論家,著有回憶錄、小說和批評專著。他最近的批評著作是《笑聲、文學、暴力,1840-1930》。他是獲獎選集《一輪飲酒故事》(A Round of Drinking Stories)的共同編輯。他曾入圍2018年的阿諾德·班奈特獎(Arnold Bennett Prize),並在2019年的薩博特獎(Saboteur Awards)中獲得最佳選集獎。他在英國、塞浦路斯和美國的各種活動、會議和節日上表演。喬納森在高等教育領域教學超過二十年,目前擔任萊斯特大學創意寫作碩士課程的主任。他與妻子和雙胞胎女兒居住在萊斯特郡。