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Paying for the Gift of Education: A Critical Discourse Analysis of The Intown Academy of Atlanta

Nesbit, Scott
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In my critical discourse analysis of The Intown Academy's (TIA) various documents and media—including the school's charter petition, charter, Parent-Student Handbook, and website—I articulate the school's subjectifying narratives and analyze how these narratives function to (re)produce particular subjects according to tropes of threat/crisis, opportunity, corporate/non-profit benevolence, and personal responsibility. Identifying these subjects, I analyze how they are effected/affected by the practice of education at TIA. To this end, I examine the various practices of school discipline codified in the Parent and Student Contracts in TIA's 2012-2013 Parent Student Handbook, including mandates for the wearing of school uniforms, volunteer labor, and reorientations of the family and the private space of the home. I conclude that TIA discursively produces indebted subjects whose educational and economic survival depends on the reorientation of their lives in service to the school.

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2014-08-12
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Atlanta Public Schools, Charter schools, US Public Education, Neoliberalism, Philanthropy, School uniforms, Old Fourth Ward, Gentrification
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Nesbit, Scott. "Paying for the Gift of Education: A Critical Discourse Analysis of The Intown Academy of Atlanta." 2014. Thesis, Georgia State University. https://doi.org/10.57709/5813869
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2014-07-21
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