Discipline

Performance appraisals and the underlying disciplinary power it exercises in the UK education system Epigraph Disciplinary power is exercised through its invisibility; at the same time, it imposes on those it subjects a compulsory visibility. In discipline, it is the subjects who have to be seen. Their visibility assures the hold of the power that is exercised over them. It is the fact of being constantly seen that maintains the disciplined individual in his subjection (Foucault, 1979, p.…

Imagine you re having the worst morning of you 're life. Everything that could go wrong has, and to top it off, you have five minute until you are tardy for school. After a while of slow driving in the rain and hurried persistence on your part, your parent(s) finally pull(s) up to the school; you are late. You receive a tardy and now have detention even though being late wasn 't your fault. This is an unfair punishment for someone that is not responsible for when they arrive. Unfortunately,…

A lot of parents in the world lack certain traits good parents have because their own parents may have inflicted poor parenting skills upon them throughout their own childhood, such as emotional, verbal, and physical abuse, which are all things that can be avoided and improved upon to make the relationship between parents and their children better. Have you ever made an opinion about something to your parents and they responded in a way that degraded you? This is just the bare minimum of what a…

years, spanking and use of physical discipline towards a child has not only been a hotly debated issue in parenting but in Canadian politics and law as well. For centuries physical acts such as spanking, slapping and grabbing have been popular ways to discipline children, but does that mean such abuse should be justified? Amidst numerous recognition of the rights of children by advocates and the government to monumental societal changes regarding parental discipline, correctional violence…

There is a long ongoing discussion about how parents should discipline their children. Some believe that the best way to punish their children is corporal punishment (physical punishment). However, others believe that corporal punishment is harmful physically and mentally for their children. There are better ways to discipline children, whether it be time outs or taking away privileges. Also, in school lunch detention or In-School Suspension are great ways to punish to bring behavior change to…

Systems Thinking Businessdictionay.com defines an organization as a social unit of people that is structured and managed to meet a need or pursue collective goals. (Businessdictionary, 2016) The needs of an organization could be a financial, social, moral, or a combination of multiple needs. Nonetheless, a root word in word organization is, ation. Ation means the act or process of doing something. (Marriam-Webster, 2016) This root word creates an important distinction in the term, organization…

Michael Foucault believes that modern society is a society of surveillance, and his predictions could not be more accurate. Through the intention of producing something as lighthearted as entertainment, we have relied on the panoptic order to secure this gaze. This essay will use Foucault’s theory of the ‘panoptic’ order to discuss the ways the, ‘Funniest Security Camera Moments of All Time’ from America’s Funniest Home Videos uses found footage comedies to define our modern day visual culture.…

"Panopticism" is a social theory created by Michel Foucault in his book Discipline and Punish. He defines this term as “the general principle of a new 'political anatomy ' whose object and end are not the relations of sovereignty but the relations of discipline" (Foucault 191). In other words, Foucault believes that institutions like the military, schools, and hospitals are controlled by requiring everyone to obey the rules and by punishing those who do not follow the rules to improve the…

all influential to help develop children’s cognitive skills, values and behaviour. (Gonzalez-Mena,2008). Discipline as part of child-rearing practices is developed by society and culture ( Bradley and Kibera, 2006). How society and or culture influences discipline will be analysed using different theoretical perspectives and finally, the effect of discipline to child development. Discipline is the process of teaching children the values and normative behaviours of their society (Wissow, 2002).…

increase in the phenomenon known as exclusionary discipline. Meanwhile, in that same 2010 year, more than a quarter-million students were referred to police officers for misdemeanor tickets, very often for minor offenses more than likely could have been dealt with internally and that may have only elicited a stern talking-to. The practice of pushing kids out of school and toward the juvenile and criminal justice systems has…