Rethinking School Violence

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction: The Case for Rethinking School Violence

   1. Introduction: The Case for Rethinking School Violence

      • Kerry H. Robinson, Sue Saltmarsh, Cristyn Davies

      Pages 1-18

3. School Violence in Context

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. ‘The kid most likely’: Naming, Brutality and Silence within and beyond School Settings

      • Sue Saltmarsh

      Pages 21-37

   3. The Historical and Political Roots of School Violence in South Africa: Developing a Cross-National Theory

      • Ronnie Casella

      Pages 38-55

   4. FYI…Virtual Space Has a Context: Towards an Alternative Frame for Understanding Cyberbullying

      • Amy Chapman, Rachel Buchanan

      Pages 56-68

4. Gender and School Violence

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69

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   2. Sexual Harassment in Schools: Issues of Identity and Power — Negotiating the Complexities, Contexts and Contradictions of This Everyday Practice

      • Kerry H. Robinson

      Pages 71-93

   3. Schools, Violence, Masculinities and Privilege

      • Martin Mills

      Pages 94-110

   4. ‘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

      • Robert Morrell, Deevia Bhana, Vijay Hamlall

      Pages 111-128

5. Language, Representation and Practice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129

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   2. Speaking Violence: Homophobia and the Production of Injurious Speech in Schooling Cultures

      • Cristyn Davies, David McInnes

      Pages 131-148

   3. Random School Shootings, Teen Culture and the Representation of Violence

      • Sara Knox

      Pages 149-166

   4. Young People, Ethical Sex and Violence Prevention

      • Moira Carmody

      Pages 167-183

   5. Conclusions: Rethinking School Violence: Implications for Theory, Policy and Practice

      • Kerry H. Robinson, Cristyn Davies, Sue Saltmarsh

      Pages 184-194

6. Back Matter

   Pages 195-229

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Taking a sociocultural approach to understanding violence, the authors in this collection examine how norms of gender, culture and educational practice contribute to school violence, providing strategies to intervene in and address violence in educational contexts.

• Cyberbullying
• gender
• identity
• Nation
• Sex
• violence
• violence prevention
• childhood studies

• Australian Catholic University, Australia

  Sue Saltmarsh

• University of Western Sydney, Australia

  Kerry H. Robinson

• The University of Sydney, Australia

  Cristyn Davies

DEEVIA BHANA Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa RACHEL BUCHANAN Lecturer in Education at the University of Newcastle, Australia MOIRA CARMODY Associate Professor at the University Western Sydney, Australia RONNIE CASELLA Professor of Educational Foundations and Secondary Education at Central Connecticut State University, USA AMY CHAPMAN Lecturer in Education Studies at the Australian Catholic University, Australia VIJAY HAMLALL PhD candidate at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa SARA KNOX Associate Professor at the University of Western Sydney, Australia DAVID MCINNES Lecturer at the University of Western Sydney, Australia MARTIN MILLS Professor of Education at The University of Queensland, Australia ROBERT MORRELL Professor in the Education Faculty of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

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