Saturday, May 9, 2009

discipline from HS to College

When thinking about the shift in torture that Foucault discusses. I tried to imagine a similar shift in my own experience. In high school we would get detention for being late to class or just misbehaving. We had people watching over us all the time: teachers, security guards, or other students who would tell on us. In college it has shifted to a more individual atmosphere in which you truly become responsible for everything you do. Should you get caught doing something in the dorms that you were supposed to, there are RA's who would write you up. These were different from detentions. Instead of sitting in a room for 30 minutes after school, in college we had to meet with the resident director and discuss why we did whatever it was we were doing wrong and perhaps had to create a bulletin board discussing the issue for the residence hall.

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