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This 3 page paper looks at the infamous Panopticon Model along with John Devine's essay about public schools. His ideas are contrasted with that of Michel Foucault. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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rather rigid model of social control that many criticize. The idea that the schools may be becoming like it is unconscionable. But Devine really does not take that point of
view. Rather, he sees some of the most troubled schools as having a policy that does not really attach itself to the Panopticon model. Instead, he sees the schools as
out of control, and this is particularly true for the schools in New York City. The author views certain schools in the city as very violent, where the teachers have
lost all control. In comparison to Michel Foucaults view for example, Devine is critical. Foucault sees the problem as the government being too intrusive. Devine sees the problem as
something that goes more to a loss of discipline than something that might be either fixed, or dissolved, with a band-aid solution. Also, Michel Foucaults (1977 as cited in Haggerty
& Ericson, 2000) analysis of the panopticon does provide a significant metaphor for understanding contemporary surveillance. Foucault extends Orwellian fears, but his analysis does mark a significant departure from
the original model, as it situates surveillance in the context of a specific theory of power (2000). The panopticon was really a proposed prison design by eighteenth-century reformer Jeremy Bentham
but what distinguished this structure had been an architectural design that would maximize the visibility of inmates who were to be isolated in individual cells (2000). While one might want
to compare this to strict seating lunchrooms found around the nation, unless there is surveillance from above, one can say that contemporary schools do not really employ a true panopticon
design. At the same time, school atmosphere does include a sense that the children are being watched at all times. Of course, this is what schools are supposed to do.
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