Students, Teachers, and Leaders Addressing Bullying in Schools

322 Pages·2015·5.1 MB·English

by  Christa Boske

Students, Teachers, and Leaders Addressing
Bullying in Schools

Students, Teachers, and Leaders Addressing
Bullying in Schools
Edited by
Christa Boske
Kent State University, USA
and
Azadeh Osanloo
New Mexico State University, USA
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This book provides the reader with the missing voices of students, educators, and
families in the national dialogue on bullying. The telling of stories by those who
have been marginalized due to race, gender, class, ability, sexual orientation, or
gender expression is one of the truest forms of activism in our time. This incredible
book helps us to understand the impact of taunting, teasing, and micro aggressions
targeted at student identities that result in identity-based bullying. This book will
help the reader to develop a critical understanding of the systematic injustice of
bullying in order to better support and create welcoming and culturally competent
schools.
– Johanna Eager, Director of Welcoming Schools, A Project from the Human
Rights Campaign
Boske and Osanloo have demonstrated the gift of “story catching” in this book and
offer readers a bricolage of voices on bullying. The editors demonstrate craftiness as
bricoleurs as they weave stories of sadness, bravery, and triumph to create an agenda
that shifts the overall voice of the book into an agenda for action. This literary work
of art virtually stands alone as it places the voices of all stakeholders – children,
families, community members, practitioners, and scholars – at the forefront of a
current crisis that, if not addressed, will continue to cause devastating losses of life
and community.
– Whitney Sherman Newcomb, Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University
With increased attention to violence in and around schools, this book provides a
systemic analysis by going directly to the source: young people, their families, and
involved educators. Boske and Osanloo dig beyond media portrayals and knee-jerk
reactions to uncover the oppression that shapes bullying, from a range of powerful
voices. This book is a must read for educators, social workers, and concerned
professionals dedicated to educational solutions to our deepest forms of oppression.
– Christopher Knaus, Professor and Director, Educational Leadership at the
University of Washington Tacoma
School bullying is one of the most detrimental and violent scourges on education. It
undermines learning and destroys lives and communities, yet the voices of bullied
students and educators continue to be marginalized or completely suppressed.
Drs. Boske and Osanloo gathered a collection of powerful and important narratives
that give voice to the bullied. In this book we find vignettes penned by a diverse
group of educators, scholars, students and community members that explore
problems associated with bullying and possibilities for effecting positive cultural
change, protection and caring relationships in schools.
– Jeffrey S. Brooks, Professor of Educational Leadership at Monash University
Bullying is happening repeatedly across the country and in a variety of schools.
The challenge is not taking a myopic approach, rather, one that takes into account
the intersection of factors and contexts in which bullying occurs. Boske and
Osanloo take an approach with this volume that goes beyond a simplistic frame of
perpetrator versus victim and instead promotes reflection, articulation, and change.
They illustrate and affirm bullying hurts us ALL. Boske and Osanloo present the
complexity of this issue and the insufficiency of “good intentions.” They invite
readers to explore new possibilities and responses.
– Noelle Witherspoon Arnold, President of the University Council for Educational
Association and Associate Professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia
This books captures the essence of one of the gravest challenges facing our schools
– the daily realities of bullying. While bullying has become part of the rhetoric of
schools, there is the perception that bullying happens “other places” or that it is “part
of growing up.” Boske and Osanloo’s book provides authentic voices that present
vivid accounts about bullying. In short, this books makes the compelling case about
why all schools, all communities, and all leaders must substantially engage with
their local school cultures that allow and perpetuate bulling. Bullying is not other
people’s problem, it is all of our responsibility to tackle. Our vulnerable children
depend on us to do that. This is an important book!
– George Theoharis, Department Chair of Teaching and Leadership at Syracuse
University
LGBT youth deal with bullying in the form of harassment, violence and attacks. One
of the most common reasons for bullying is actual or assumed sexual orientation or
gender identity. It’s unfortunate that so many young people have felt unsafe at school
due to bigotry. This book addresses this important topic to help put bullying to rest.
– Deidre McPherson, Founder of Sistah Sinema Cleveland
TABLe Of COnTenTS
Foreword xi
Michele Josue
Uncomfortable Truths: An Introduction to Bullying in U.S. Schools xiii
Christa Boske and Azadeh Osanloo
1. Bullied: What’s Going on? 1
Christa Boske
2. What Are You?: The Hidden Curriculum and Microaggressions
Associated with What It Means to Be “Different” 23
Azadeh Osanloo
Part 1: Voices from Youth in Schools
3. A Young Man’s Journey 35
Chris Board
4. You Are Worth It 41
Emily Wirth
5. Does It Really Matter If Nobody Is Around? 45
Goldiea Shaw
6. I Was the Shy and Awkward Girl 49
Mariyah
7. I’m a Little Bit Darker 53
Devin Jontez McMiller
8. How Do You Feel about Bullying in Schools? 57
Anthony Bias
9. Standing up to the Popular Girl 59
Leah Bailey
10. School Violence 61
Edward Valentin
11. Being “White” 63
Aajah Chapman
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TABLe OF CONTeNTS
12. What Makes Me Beautiful 65
Erica Howard
13. Learning to Love One Another 69
Angely Boske
14. T.H.I.N.K. 77
Kiara Kane
15. You Just Get Used to It 79
Destiny Puffenbarger
Part 2: Voices from Concerned families and Community Members
16. Becoming Mrs. Baker 83
Brad Sinick
17. Dyke, Dyke, Dyke! 97
Jennifer Turley
18. Something Soft 105
Jonathan W. Gill
19. Chaos and Order 109
Kim Mosyjowski and Joan Mosyjowski
20. Bullied at the Intersection: Growing up Gay in the Black Church
and Rural Ohio 117
Dwayne Steward
21. Masculine of Center 123
Logan Sherman
22. I Was Prime Pickn’ 133
Bradley Rhodes
23. Bullies in Diapers: Techniques to extinguish Bullying Behaviors
in Young Children 139
Mandy A. Cenker-Miller
24. Bullying: The Synthetic Cool 149
Martinez E-B
25. Katie 153
Katie Miller
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TABLe OF CONTeNTS
Part 3: Voices from educators and Scholars in the field
26. Bullying: Schoolhouse and Workforce Considerations for Students
and Teachers 159
Bernard Oliver
27. The Power to Move Others: Dancers Addressing Bullying 169
Kimberly Meredith
28. Dare Greatly to enhance Your School’s Climate through Acceptance,
Relational Trust, and Creating a Sense of Belonging 189
Ryan Schoenfeld and Jeff Dinse
29. The Quiet Roar 193
Amanda Hudnall
30. Looking to the Future – exploring the Need to Address Bullying in
Higher education 199
Laura Merry and Joanna Royce-Davis
31. The elephant in the School: Recognizing Bullying in Other Forms 219
Karen Andrus Tollafield
32. First Things First: A Middle School Model of Comprehensive Supports 225
Darla Wagner
33. A Case Study of the Gay-Straight Alliance’s Presence at a Public
Urban High School 229
Dickson S. Perey
34. The Relation of Physical Discipline to Bullying Behaviors across
Different Families and ethnicities 245
Yoona Lee, Malcolm W. Watson and Ki-Hak Lee
35. Addressing Bad Behavior with Good Science: Research Implications
for School Policies and Intervention Programs 261
Michael J. Sheehan
36. Bridge Building: Promoting Culturally Responsive Practices and
Policies to Address Bullying in K-12 Schools 281
Christa Boske
37. Concluding Thoughts: President and CeO, Moving beyond Prejudice 305
Paul Saltzman
Contributors 309
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