Browsing by Author "McDougall, Kathleen Lorne"

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    Discipline and savagery : the spectacle of the post-apartheid South African school
    (2003) McDougall, Kathleen Lorne; Stadler, Jane
    In describing and evaluating a South African semiotic of order and disorder, this dissertation traces representations of school discipline through examples of colonial and apartheid to key contemporary discursive practices. In this interdisciplinary dissertation three contemporary sets of texts are analysed: the department of education policy document, Alternatives to corporal punishment (2001), news articles on school disruption from the Business Day, Mail & Guardian and the Sowetan newspapers (1996-2002), and photographs on delinquency and discipline taken by a group of Cape Town public secondary school students.