A is for arson a history of vandalism in American education
"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, paren...
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Ithaca [New York] :
Cornell University Press
2023
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| Series: | Histories of American education
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: a few words on senseless destruction
- Populism and property destruction, 1790-1890
- Modern education and its discontents, 1890-1930
- Diagnosing delinquency, 1930-1960
- Vandalism and the security state, 1960-2000
- Books and boredom
- Desks and nostalgia
- Walls and the taboo
- Windows and euphoria
- Shards
- Epilogue: reflections on unruliness and education.
