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School Discipline and Surveillance: Developments in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand

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This chapter seeks to trace the early approaches to school discipline and social control following colonial settlement in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand, highlighting the importance of sociocultural and historical contexts. Demonstrating a continuance of policy importation from abroad, the chapter turns attention to contemporary approaches to school discipline such as ‘zero tolerance’ and technological surveillance practices in these two countries. It is argued that education in ‘settler societies’ has been, and continues to be, a site of considerable contestation.

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    Maori are the indigenous people of New Zealand.

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    Aborigines are the indigenous people of Australia.

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  1. Department of Sociology, City, University of London, London, UK

    Emmeline Taylor

  2. Massey University, Palmerston North City, New Zealand

    Alison Kearney

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Taylor, E., Kearney, A. (2018). School Discipline and Surveillance: Developments in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. In: Deakin, J., Taylor, E., Kupchik, A. (eds) The Palgrave International Handbook of School Discipline, Surveillance, and Social Control. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71559-9_5

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