Systemic Violence: How Schools Hurt Children [Paperback]

This text examines the negative practices of schools which are resulting in school systems failing students. Such practices include intrusive authoritarian administrative structures and procedures; inappropriate discipline; unrealistic expectations; and placid exceptance of exclusionary practices. Indeed, educational systemic violence includes any practice or procedure that prevents students from learning, thus harming them.

Taking a close look at ways in which current social problems may be a result of, or even supported by, compulsory schooling, the contributors to this volume consider whether or not schools contribute to the violence amongst modern young people.

This text examines the negative practices of schools which are resulting in school systems failing students. Such practices include intrusive authoritarian administrative structures and procedures; inappropriate discipline; unrealistic expectations; and placid exceptance of exclusionary practices.Schools, complicity and sources of violence, Juanita Ross Epp. Part 1 School complicity in child abuse: dangerous liasion - the eugenics movement and the educational state, Sheila Martineau; child abuse and teachers' work, Rosonna Tite; systemic barriers between home and school, Sharon M. Abbey- Loucks. Part 2 Schools and violence: expanding the lens - student perceptions of school violence, Irene M. MacDonald; voices from the shadows, Linda Wason-Ellam; disclosure and resistance - girls' silence in an inner-city classroom, Carol Leroy; masculinities and schooling - the making of men, Blye W. Frank. Part 3 Pedagogy - violation or vindication?: arguments as conquest - rhetoric and rape, Lisa Jadwin; mens's minds and women's matters - digging at the roots of androcentric epistemologies, Sandra Monteath; literacy tasks and social change - voices and a view from somewhere, Lorraine Cathro. Part 4 Legal violence: suffer the little children who come into schools, Ailsa M. Watkinson.Jló"