TY - JOUR
T1 - CCTV surveillance in primary schools
T2 - normalisation, resistance, and children’s privacy consciousness
AU - Birnhack, Michael
AU - Perry-Hazan, Lotem
AU - German Ben-Hayun, Shiran
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2018/3/4
Y1 - 2018/3/4
N2 - This study explored how primary school children perceive school surveillance by Closed Circuit TV systems (CCTVs) and how their perceptions relate to their privacy consciousness. It drew on interviews with 57 children, aged 9–12, who were enrolled in three Israeli public schools that had installed CCTVs, and on information gathered from members of the management team of each school. The findings indicated that in all three schools, educators did not discuss the CCTVs with the children. Consequently, most children had various erroneous assumptions regarding the CCTVs, leading some children to wrongly believe that they were seen and heard in almost every corner of the school, including toilets and classrooms. The findings also revealed a tension between normalisation of school surveillance on the one hand, and resistance to excessive surveillance on the other. In addition, the findings demonstrated that even young children, having been born and raised in a digital world with its ubiquitous surveillance, value their privacy and are willing to relinquish it only when they perceive it as justified. The moral balance voiced by the children regarding the circumstances that justify trading privacy for security resembles constitutional analysis.
AB - This study explored how primary school children perceive school surveillance by Closed Circuit TV systems (CCTVs) and how their perceptions relate to their privacy consciousness. It drew on interviews with 57 children, aged 9–12, who were enrolled in three Israeli public schools that had installed CCTVs, and on information gathered from members of the management team of each school. The findings indicated that in all three schools, educators did not discuss the CCTVs with the children. Consequently, most children had various erroneous assumptions regarding the CCTVs, leading some children to wrongly believe that they were seen and heard in almost every corner of the school, including toilets and classrooms. The findings also revealed a tension between normalisation of school surveillance on the one hand, and resistance to excessive surveillance on the other. In addition, the findings demonstrated that even young children, having been born and raised in a digital world with its ubiquitous surveillance, value their privacy and are willing to relinquish it only when they perceive it as justified. The moral balance voiced by the children regarding the circumstances that justify trading privacy for security resembles constitutional analysis.
KW - School surveillance
KW - human rights education
KW - normalisation
KW - privacy
KW - resistance
KW - rights consciousness
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85038018877&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2017.1386546
DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2017.1386546
M3 - مقالة
SN - 0305-4985
VL - 44
SP - 204
EP - 220
JO - Oxford Review of Education
JF - Oxford Review of Education
IS - 2
ER -