Kimberly M. Williams

Socially Constructed School Violence

Lessons from the Field

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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, administr… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Kincheloe, Joe L. (Hrsg.) / Steinberg, Shirley R. (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-8204-7129-7
EAN: 9780820471297
Produktnummer: 19043054
Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Seitenangabe: 191 S.
Masse: H15.4 cm x B22.9 cm x D1.5 cm 312 g
Abbildungen: 3 tables
Gewicht: 312
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

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).