Disciplining and punishing normal technical students : a reading of resistance in a Singaporean school.

• Main Author: Pierre, Rachel Edmond.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology::Behaviorism; DRNTU::Social sciences::Education
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/43813
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper explores and reframes the common sense understanding that Normal Technical students in Singapore are defiant. To do this, participant observations were conducted in a school and 12 students and 3 teachers were interviewed. Using Foucault’s discipline, this study illustrates that Normal Te...