Overview
- Highlights the social and cultural inequalities which often create the base of bullying within schools
- Assesses how anti-bullying approaches should be improved and developed to tackle the causes of bullying
- Builds on qualitative research to focus on the voices of young people and the struggles they experience in schools today
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education (GED)
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“An important and insightful critique of current approaches to dealing with gender-based aggression in Australian schools. Rawlings argues that ‘anti-bullying’ approaches, framed in discourses of individual pathologies, will continue to be largely ineffectual in addressing gender-based aggression, and bullying more generally, as they fail to adequately confront the centrality of social,cultural, and institutional factors that underpin these behaviours… a critical reminder that we need to not just look to the contemporary lives of young people to see how gender and power are perceived and negotiated, but also the cultural values of teachers. What is alarming is that many of the cultural discourses held by teachers and students around girls and sexuality, and around masculinity and power, discourses identified as central to gender-based aggression in schools more than three decades ago, continue to be pivotal to the ‘everyday’ gendered aggression encountered in schools today.” (Kerry Robinson, Professor, University of Western Sydney, Australia)
“This engaging book offers a timely and very important contribution to work on violence in schools. Through a detailed and nuanced analysis of rich interview data with students and teachers in two high schools in Australia, Rawlings explores the ways that bullying and violence are products of the particular social,cultural and institutional contexts in which they are performed. This much-needed book offers fascinating insights that will be of interest to academics, researchers, teachers and policy-makers.” (Carolyn Jackson, Professor, Lancaster University, UK)
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Book Title: Gender Regulation, Violence and Social Hierarchies in School
Book Subtitle: 'Sluts', 'Gays' and 'Scrubs'
Authors: Victoria Rawlings
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52302-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-52301-3Published: 24 November 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-52302-0Published: 17 November 2016
Series ISSN: 2524-6445
Series E-ISSN: 2524-6453
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 305
Topics: Gender and Education, Sociology of Education, Gender Studies, Sociology of Education, Slang and Jargon, Child and School Psychology