Gender Regulation, Violence and Social Hierarchies in School
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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
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Victoria Rawlings
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“Rawlings does an exceptional job at dissuading the reader from traditional bullying theories by offering more contemporary theories … . offering transcripts of student discourse along with teacher/principal discourse gives the reader an interesting look into the similarities that occur at both levels in a school system. … Rawlings leaves her audience with a helpful and empirically backed start in which schools may begin to see a meaningful impact and inclusive influence on all areas and demographics affected by bullying.” (Jacob Christenson, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Vol. 46, 2017)
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“Victoria Rawlings’ sharp analysis captures the critical aspect of bullying that tends to be overlooked by those who seek to understand the nature of bullying. Rather than focus on insufficient developmental or behavioural theories, Rawlings deftly investigates how discourse, especially of gender and sexuality, gives form to insiders and outsiders among students in schools, as they do in larger society. Rawlings’ work is a refreshing and giant step forward on the matter of understanding the persistent and complex problem of bullying.” (Gerald Walton, Associate Professor, Lakehead University, Canada)
“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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