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A Is for Arson
2023
Overview
In A Is for Arson
, Campbell F. Scribner sifts through two centuries of
debris to uncover the conditions that have prompted school
vandalism and to explain why attempts at prevention have inevitably
failed. Vandalism costs taxpayers hundreds of millions of
dollars every year, as students, parents, and even teachers wreak
havoc on school buildings. Why do they do it? Can anything stop
them? Who should pay for the damage? Underlying these questions are
long-standing tensions between freedom and authority, and between
wantonness and reason.
Property destruction is not simply a moral failing, to be
addressed with harsher punishments, nor can the problem be solved
through more restrictive architecture or policing. Scribner argues
that education itself is a source of intractable struggle, and that
vandalism is often the result of an unruly humanity. To understand
schooling in the United States, one must first confront the
all-too-human emotions that have led to fires, broken windows, and
graffiti.
A Is for Arson captures those emotions through new
historical evidence and diverse theoretical perspectives, helping
readers understand vandalism variously as a form of political
conflict, as self-education, and as sheer chaos. By analyzing
physical artifacts as well as archival sources, Scribner offers new
perspectives on children's misbehavior and adults' reactions and
allows readers to see the complexities of education-the built
environment of teaching and learning, evolving approaches to youth
psychology and student discipline-through the eyes of its often
resistant subjects.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Subject
ISBN
1501770721, 9781501770722, 9781501770746, 1501770748, 150177073X, 9781501770739
