Bullying: Experiences and discourses of sexuality and gender

185 Pages·2013·0.705 MB·English

by  Ian Rivers, Neil Duncan

Bullying
Bullying: Experiences and discourses of sexuality and gender provides a valuable
insight into the experiences of young people and how bullying can impact
upon them in the school environment. The book offers an introduction to
the key issues associated with bullying on the grounds of sex and sexual
orientation, and points to key policies and guidance on these diffi cult issues.
With cutting-edge research and applied studies from leading academics
and practitioners in the fi eld, Bullying combines theory with suggestions
for practical intervention for practitioners in education and social work.
Chapter by chapter, the book strengthens the reader’s knowledge base, and
demonstrates how best to develop both academic and advocacy arguments
to confront bullying, formulate intervention through examples of research
fi ndings, and recommend advice and guidance in professional contexts.
Bullying offers multiple perspectives to challenge bullying related to gender,
sexuality and transgender status.
The book includes the latest work on:
• sexual bullying and the implications for policy and practice
• sexual dimensions of cyberbullying
• homophobia
• sex differences in bullying
• lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues in educational contexts
• planning and delivering interventions in schools.
Bullying: Experiences and discourses of sexuality and gender will appeal to education
professionals, as well as researchers and postgraduate students in the social sciences,
social work, and educational and clinical child psychology.
Ian Rivers is Professor of Human Development in the School of Sport and
Education at Brunel University, UK.
Neil Duncan is Reader in Education for Social Justice at the University of
Wolverhampton, UK.
Foundations and Futures of Education
Peter Aggleton School of Education and Social Work,
University of Sussex, UK
Sally Power Cardiff University, UK
Michael Reiss Institute of Education, University of London, UK
Foundations and Futures of Education focuses on key emerging issues in
education as well as continuing debates within the fi eld. The series is inter-
disciplinary, and includes historical, philosophical, sociological, psychological
and comparative perspectives on three major themes: the purposes and nature
of education; increasing interdisciplinarity within the subject; and the theory–
practice divide.
Being a University
Ron Barnett
Education: An ‘Impossible Profession’?
Tamara Bibby
Radical Education and the Common School
Michael Fielding and Peter Moss
Re-Designing Learning Contexts: Technology-rich, learner-centred
ecologies
Rosemary Luckin
Schools and Schooling in the Digital Age: A critical analysis
Neil Selwyn
The Irregular School
Roger Slee
Gender, Schooling and Global Social Justice
Elaine Unterhalter
Language, Learning, Context: Talking the talk
Wolff-Michael Roth
School Trouble
Deborah Youdell
The Right to Higher Education: Beyond widening participation
Penny Jane Burke
Postfeminist Education? Girls and the sexual politics of schooling
Jessica Ringrose
Bullying: Experiences and discourses of sexuality and gender
Ian Rivers and Neil Duncan
Education and Masculinities: Social, cultural and global transformations
Chris Haywood and Mairtin Mac an Ghaill
Bullying
Experiences and discourses of sexuality
and gender
Edited by Ian Rivers and Neil Duncan
First published 2013
by Routledge
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© 2013 I. Rivers and N. Duncan
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bullying : experiences and discourses of sexuality and gender /
edited by Ian Rivers and Neil Duncan.
pages cm
ISBN 978-0-415-50502-4 (hardback) – ISBN 978-0-415-50503-1
(paperback) – ISBN 978-0-203-07677-4 (ebook) (print)
1. Harassment in schools. 2. Sexual harassment in education.
3. Bullying in schools. 4. Bullying in schools–Psychological aspects.
I. Rivers, Ian. II. Duncan, Neil, 1956-
LC212.82.B85 2012
371.5’8–dc23
2012027702
ISBN: 978-0-415-50502-4 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-415-50503-1 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-07677-4 (ebk)
Typeset in Garamond
by Saxon Graphics Ltd, Derby
To Chris and Barbara (IR)
To Carol and Alex (ND)
Contents
Contributors ix
Figures and tables xi
Acknowledgements xiii
Foreword by Archie Panjabi xv
1 Introduction 1
Neil Duncan and Ian Rivers
2 The immediate and long-term effects of bullying 10
Helen Cowie
3 Cyberbullying and cyberaggression: sexualised and
gendered experiences explored 19
Ian Rivers
4 Bullying and sexual violence: defi nition, prevalence,
outcomes and moderators 31
Dorothy L. Espelage
5 Girls and indirect aggression 45
Dawn Jennifer
6 Sexual bullying in one local authority 60
Siân Williams
7 Homophobic bullying 75
V. Paul Poteat, Ethan H. Mereish, Craig D. DiGiovanni
and Jillian R. Scheer
8 Mapping the boundaries of homophobic language
in bullying 91
Mark McCormack
9 Disability, sexuality and bullying 105
Neil Duncan
10 Masculinity and homophobia in high school
and college sports: a personal journey from
coach to researcher 120
Eric Anderson
11 The role of Gay–Straight Alliances in addressing
bullying in schools 132
Margaret Schneider, Robb Travers, Alex St. John,
Lauren Munro and Kate Klein
12 Planning and delivering interventions to promote
gender and sexuality 145
Debbie Ollis
13 Discourses of sexuality and gender considered 162
Ian Rivers and Neil Duncan
Index 169
Contributors
Eric Anderson, University of Bath, UK
Helen Cowie, University of Surrey, UK
Craig D. DiGiovanni, Boston College, USA
Neil Duncan, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Dorothy L. Espelage, University of Illinois, USA
Dawn Jennifer, Open University, UK
Kate Klein, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Mark McCormack, Durham University, UK
Ethan H. Mereish, Boston College, USA
Lauren Munro, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Debbie Ollis, Deakin University, Australia
V. Paul Poteat, Boston College, USA
Ian Rivers, Brunel University, UK
Jillian R. Scheer, Boston College, USA
Margaret Schneider, University of Toronto Ontario Institute
for Studies in Education, Canada
Alex St. John, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Robb Travers, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Siân Williams, London Borough of Lewisham, UK
Figures and tables
Figures
6.1 Three-tier model of restorative approaches 69
8.1 The traditional framework for understanding homophobic language 94
8.2 A framework for understanding fag discourse 95
8.3 A new framework for understanding gay discourse 97
8.4 A model for homosexually-themed language 100
9.1 Graffi to 106
Tables
3.1 and 3.2 Trends in online sexual solicitation: percentages 22
3.3 Youth Online Behaviour and Perpetrator Response: YISS 2 (2005) 23
6.1 English school system 60
6.2 Further insights into gender differences from focus group narratives 66