Systemic Violence: How Schools Hurt Children

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Annotated List of Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 11
1 Schools, Complicity, and Sources of Violence......Page 13
Complicity......Page 14
Standardized Tests......Page 17
Cultural Bias......Page 18
What is Normal?......Page 19
Looking for ‘Me’ in Meaning: Pedagogy......Page 20
Neglect of the Affective......Page 21
A Question of Obedience......Page 23
Control......Page 24
Reflections on School Punishment......Page 26
Elements of Punishment......Page 27
Dehumanization......Page 29
Stratification......Page 30
Abuse......Page 32
References......Page 34
Part 1 School Complicity in Child Abuse......Page 37
The Eugenics-Education Alliance......Page 38
Symbolic Violence......Page 39
The ‘Doubleness’ of Discipline......Page 40
Feeble-mindedness......Page 41
Constructing Child Abuse......Page 42
The Eugenics Movement......Page 44
Constructing the Natural Child......Page 46
Social Policy......Page 47
The Educational State......Page 48
Constructing Children’s Work......Page 50
Social Structures......Page 51
Dangerous Liaison: Past and Present......Page 52
Attention-deficit Disorder......Page 53
Full-service Schools......Page 55
Notes......Page 57
References......Page 59
3 Child Abuse and Teachers’ Work: The  Voice of Frustration*......Page 63
The Teachers......Page 65
Teachers’ Voices I: Frustration......Page 66
Teachers’ Voices II: Uncertainty......Page 70
Teachers’ Voices III: Concerns about Consequences......Page 72
Systemic Links: Child Abuse and Teachers’ Work......Page 74
References......Page 78
4  Systemic Barriers between Home and School......Page 80
Teacher-Mothers......Page 81
Denial of the Domestic......Page 82
The Juggling Act......Page 83
Living in Both Worlds......Page 86
Mother-Teachers......Page 88
Mothering and Teaching: Diffuse or Specific?......Page 89
Valuing Teacher-Mothers......Page 91
References......Page 93
Part 2 Schools and Violence......Page 95
5 Expanding the Lens: Student Perceptions of School Violence......Page 96
Exploring Student Perceptions......Page 97
Feeling Safe......Page 98
Would You Tell?......Page 100
Administrative Response......Page 102
Violence and Pedagogy......Page 103
References......Page 105
Outside the Classroom Community......Page 106
Conversational Outsiders......Page 108
Learning Gender......Page 110
Creating a School Persona......Page 112
Why Do Girls Bully?......Page 113
Intervention 1: The Book Circle......Page 114
Intervention 2: The Power of Story......Page 115
References......Page 116
7  Disclosure and Resistance: Girls’ Silence in an Inner-city Classroom......Page 118
Apprehension......Page 119
Getting Burned......Page 121
Betrayal......Page 122
What to Do? Who’s to Do It?......Page 124
References......Page 125
8  Masculinities and Schooling: The Making of Men......Page 126
Postmodernism and Masculinities......Page 127
Bodies, Sports and Sexuality......Page 129
Hegemonic Heterosexual Masculinity......Page 133
Possibilities......Page 135
Needs......Page 136
Organizing for Change......Page 139
References......Page 142
Part 3 Pedagogy: Violation or Vindication?......Page 145
Argument as Conquest......Page 146
Rhetoric......Page 148
Largeness......Page 149
Stiffness and the ability to stab......Page 150
Forcefulness......Page 151
Seminality......Page 152
Rape......Page 153
Rhetoric and Rape......Page 154
References......Page 157
10  Men’s Minds and Women’s Matters: Digging at the Roots of Androcentric Epistemologies......Page 159
Gendered Hierarchical Dualities......Page 160
Mending the Split......Page 164
Collapsing the Objectivity/Subjectivity Duality......Page 165
Collapsing the Reason/Emotion Duality......Page 167
Male and Female Body/Subjects as Second Persons......Page 168
Notes......Page 170
References......Page 171
Institutional Knowledge and Power......Page 174
 Devaluation of Experiential Knowledge......Page 175
Devaluation of Narrative......Page 176
Gatekeeping......Page 178
Personal Power......Page 179
Valuing Narrative......Page 180
Mentorship......Page 181
Critiquing the Power of the Disciplines......Page 182
References......Page 183
Part 4 Legal Violence......Page 186
12  Suffer the Little Children Who Come into Schools1......Page 187
Authoritarian or Democratic Education......Page 188
Who Knows What?…......Page 190
…and Who Cares When?......Page 191
Inherent Inequality in Education......Page 192
The Promise......Page 194
Judicial Deference......Page 196
Draconian Legislation......Page 197
Codes of Ethics......Page 199
Education and Democracy......Page 200
References......Page 202
13  Postscript: Making Central the Peripheral......Page 206
References......Page 210
Notes on Contributors......Page 211
Index......Page 214