Socially Constructed School Violence: Lessons from the Field

ISBN-13: 9780820471297 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 191 str.

Steinberg, Shirley R.

Opis

Socially Constructed School Violence: Lessons from the Field argues that the way we understand what constitutes violence is socially constructed, and that people from different social locations, that is, gender, race, social class, geographic location, and so on, will have varied perspectives on what is violent. Based on ethnographic work at an urban alternative school for students expelled for bringing weapons to school and an affluent suburban school eighteen miles away, this book describes various ways violence can be constructed. Specifically, this book discusses personal and structural forms of violence that students, teachers, administrators, and other school staff encounter. Using powerful examples from the ethnographic analysis, this book describes some of the valuable lessons learned about how we can work to prevent school violence.

O autorze

The Author: Kimberly Williams is Associate Professor of Education in the Childhood/Early Childhood Department at the State University of New York College at Cortland. She received her Ph.D. in cultural foundations of education at Syracuse University and continues to work on school violence issues. She has worked on a variety of school violence evaluation projects, including the Hamilton Fish National Institute on School and Community Violence and the Safe Schools, Healthy Students local evaluation project in Syracuse, New York. Dr. Williams is the author of several papers and books on violence including, most recently, The PEACE Approach to Violence Prevention: A Guide for Administrators and Teachers (2003) and a multiauthored book entitled Preventing Violence in Schools: A Challenge for American Democracy (2001).