Bøker av Jonathan Taylor

On bullying, discipline, and power in school and beyond.What does it mean to be a bully? What does it feel like to be bullied—to be a victim, a pariah, a scapegoat? What are the techniques, patterns, and languages of bullying?Intermingling memoir with literary criticism, philosophy, and sociology, A Physical Education attempts to answer these questions. A highly original examination of the uses and abuses of power in the education system, it explores how bullying and discipline function, how they differ from each other, and how they all too often overlap.  Taylor interweaves his own experiences with reflections on well-known literary representations of bullying and school discipline, alongside sociological, psychological, and philosophical theories of power. He discusses the transition from corporal punishment to psychological forms of discipline that took place in the UK in the 1980s, and he also investigates the divergences and convergences of physical, psychological, and linguistic bullying. Above all, A Physical Education sets out to understand bullying and discipline from an experiential perspective: what these things feel like from "within," rather than "above," for all those involved. There are horrors, tragedies, and cyclical traumas, certainly—but there are also absurdities, contradictions, grotesque comedies. Sometimes, beneath the Gradgrindian tyranny, there is trickery, laughter. And sometimes there are chinks in The Wall, through which other possible worlds might be glimpsed.

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Billy Saves the Day, helps build confidence and understanding in children and teens who are likely to be either bullies or victims of bullies. In most cases, it is never too early to discuss the subject of 'bullying' with your child. Jonathan Taylor, has through his light picture book stories, found a great way to bridge the conversation to this rather challenging subject. The main character, Bobby, singles out a bully who is always picking on his friend and decides to do something about it without equally becoming a bully.This book teaches its learners how to shun bullying and embrace positive aspects such as compassion, kindness, and being a friend. It also highlights the kind of behavior that amounts to the opposite of being a good person.

It does so in relation to philosophy, politics, and key nineteenth- and twentieth-century literary texts, by Edgar Allan Poe, Edmund Gosse, Wyndham Lewis and Katherine Mansfield - texts which explore the far reaches of Schadenfreude, and so-called 'superiority theories' of laughter, pushing these theories to breaking point.