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Recent trends in school social control in sub-Saharan Africa

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posted on 2023-06-09, 08:20 authored by Kwame Akyeampong, Vincent Adzahlie-Mensah
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.

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  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Publisher

Palgrave MacMillan

Page range

191-211

Book title

The Palgrave international handbook of school discipline, surveillance, and social control

Place of publication

Cham

ISBN

9783319715582

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  • Education Publications

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  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

Emmeline Taylor, Aaron Kupchik, Jo Deakin

Legacy Posted Date

2017-10-20

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2017-10-20

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