Overview
- Focuses on young people and youth culture
- Discusses different forms of violence in schools
- Presents a variation of international studies and approaches
Part of the book series: Young People and Learning Processes in School and Everyday Life (YPLP, volume 4)
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This edited collection focuses on different aspects of everyday violence, harassment and threats in schools. It presents a number of in-depth studies of everyday life in schools and uses examples and case studies from different countries to fuel a discussion on national differences and similarities. The book discusses a broad range of concepts, findings and issues, under the umbrella of three main themes: 1) Power relations, homosociality and violence; 2) Sexualized violence and schooling; and 3) Everyday racism, segregation and schooling. Specific topics include sexuality policing, bullying, sexting, homophobia, and online rape culture.
The school is young people’s central workplace, and therefore of great importance to students’ general feeling of wellbeing, safety and security. However, there is no place where youth are at greater risk of being exposed to harassment and violations than at school and on their way to and from school. Threats are a relatively common experience among school students, but some aspects of these mundane and frequent harassments and violations are not taken seriously and are, therefore, not reported. Harassment and violations often have negative effects on youth and children, and increase their risks of such adverse outcomes as school dropout, drug use, and criminal behaviour. Contemporary research has shown that gender is of great importance to how students handle and report, or do not report, various violent situations. Studies have also revealed how the notions of masculinity and of being a victim can be conflicting identities and affect how students handle situations of threat, violence and harassment. The importance of gender is also particularly evident with regard to sexual harassment. Female students generally report greater exposure to sexual harassment than male students do.
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Keywords
- homophobia
- hate crime in schools
- school violence
- homosociality
- gender and sexuality policy
- passage from boyhood to manhood
- embodied heteromasculinities
- young people and sexual violence
- young men's experiences of relationship dissolution
- teens' experiences of online sexual harassment
- sexting and online sexual abuse
- heteronormative violence in schools
- young people tackling sexual harassment
- LGBTQ
- transphobia
- everyday racism
- online sexual victimization
- peer victimization
Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Power Relations, Homosociality and Violence
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Sexualized Violence and Schooling
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Everyday Racism, Segregation and Schooling
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Thomas Johansson’s PhD thesis is on youth, lifestyles and media culture (1992). Johansson has a background as a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist. He was promoted to a docent in Sociology (associate professor) in 1997, and to professor in social psychology in Skövde, in 2001. In 2010 he became professor of pedagogy at the faculty of education, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He has published extensively in journals such as: Men and Masculinities, Young, Acta Sociologica, Journal of Men’s Studies, Ethnicities, Popular Music & Society, International Journal of the Sociology of the Family, Journal of Family Communication, Critical Social Work, International Review of Sociology, Journal of Gender Studies, The Urban Review, Power and Education, Pedagogy, Culture & Society, Leisure Studies, Sport in Society, Journal of Homosexuality, Qualitative Social Work, Sport, Education & Society, Body & Society.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Violence, Victimisation and Young People
Book Subtitle: Education and Safe Learning Environments
Editors: Ylva Odenbring, Thomas Johansson
Series Title: Young People and Learning Processes in School and Everyday Life
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75319-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-75318-4Published: 09 July 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-75321-4Published: 09 July 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-75319-1Published: 08 July 2021
Series ISSN: 2522-5642
Series E-ISSN: 2522-5650
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 239
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Education, Education, general, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general