Rethinking school violence: theory, gender, context

The essays in this book examine how norms of gender, culture and educational practice contribute to school violence. Taking a sociocultural approach to understanding violence, chapters explore how language, image, text and everyday practice play a significant role in the production of violence in schools. Drawing on a range of theoretical traditions from across the humanities and socialsciences, contributing authors ask readers to consider how taken-for-granted assumptions and normative schooling practices can be understood as part of theproblem. The book argues that rethinking school violence involves consideringmore than student behaviour and prevention or management strategies. Instead,it requires that difficult questions be asked of educational institutions, their gendered power relations and systemic inequalities. The authors in this volume also provide strategies to intervene in and address violence in educational contexts. INDICE: Acknowledgements.Notes on Contributors.Introduction: The Case for Rethinking School Violence; K.Robinson, C.Davies& S.Saltmarsh.PART I: SCHOOL VIOLENCE IN CONTEXT.'The Kid Most Likely': Naming, Brutality and Silence Withinand Beyond School Settings; S.Saltmarsh.The Historical and Political Roots ofSchool Violence in South Africa: Developing a Cross-National Theory; R.Casella.FYI €aVirtual Space has a Context: Toward an Alternative Frame for Understanding Cyberbullying; A.Chapman& R.Buchanan .PART II: GENDER AND SCHOOL VIOLENCE.Sexual Harassment in Schools: Issues of Identity and Power - Negotiating the Complexities, Contexts, and Contradictions of this Everyday Practice; K.Robinson.Schools, Violence, Masculinities and Privilege; M.Mills.'I'm Not Scared of the Teacher - I Can Hold Him - I Can Hold Him With My Bare Hands': Schoolboys,Male Teachers and Physical Violence at a Durban Secondary School in South Africa; R.Morrell, D.Bhana& V.Hamlall.PART III: LANGUAGE, REPRESENTATION AND PRACTICE .Speaking Violence: Homophobia and the Production of Injurious Speech in Schooling Cultures; C.Davies& D.McInnes.Random School Shootings, Teen Culture and the Representation of Violence; S.Knox.Young People, Ethical Sex and Violence Prevention; M.Carmody.Conclusion; K.Robinson, C.Davies& S.Saltmarsh.Bibliography.Index.

• ISBN: 978-0-230-57669-8
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 240
• Fecha Publicación: 15/06/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido