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Mayeza, Emmanuel; Bhana, Deevia – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2020
In this paper, we contribute to the understandings of young masculinities by turning attention to the South African schooling primary school context. In the context of scarcity of interventions around violence in the primary school, we focus on how young boys construct, negotiate and experience violence. Notwithstanding dominant discourses around…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Males, Masculinity
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Moosa, Shaaista; Bhana, Deevia – Oxford Review of Education, 2020
The teaching of young children (aged between 5 and 9) or Foundation Phase (FP) as it is known in South Africa, is highly gendered and is labeled a 'woman's' job. Globally there have been calls to lessen the gender disparity within the profession by increasing the participation of men. However, apprehensions about men teaching young children can…
Descriptors: Males, Elementary School Teachers, Foreign Countries, Sex Stereotypes
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Mayeza, Emmanuel; Bhana, Deevia – South African Journal of Education, 2021
In this article, we draw on data from focus group discussions to examine the ways in which some young boys in a South African township primary school construct and negotiate hegemonic masculinity through bullying, and other forms of violence, within the school. Deviating from the simplistic victim-bully binary, we draw from critical masculinity…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bullying, Males, Masculinity
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Bhana, Deevia – British Educational Research Journal, 2018
Girls' vulnerability to sexual violence and harassment is a recurrent theme in much of the literature on schooling in sub-Saharan Africa. Within this research, girls are often framed as passive victims of violence. By drawing on a case study, this paper focuses on 12 to 13-year-old South African school girls as they mediate and participate in…
Descriptors: Females, Sexuality, Violence, Elementary School Students
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Mayeza, Emmanuel; Bhana, Deevia – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2016
This paper explores how teachers in a poor township primary school in South Africa construct meaning regarding gender violence among children, and how they talk about addressing that violence. The paper argues that major influences on the endemic violence include complex societal structures that are inscribed with cultures of violent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Elementary Schools, Violence
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Bhana, Deevia – Perspectives in Education, 2015
How might Life Skills be conceptualised in the Foundation Phase of schooling when a tradition of feminist literature has revealed the regulation, denial and the silencing of both gender and sexuality in early childhood? This article presents one Grade 2 teacher's perspective of addressing sexuality education in an impoverished township primary…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Gender Bias, Sexuality, Grade 2
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Bhana, Deevia; Nzimakwe, Thokozani; Nzimakwe, Phumzile – International Journal of Educational Development, 2011
Understanding the ways in which young boys and girls give meaning to gender and sexuality is vital, and is especially significant in the light of South Africa's commitment to gender equality. Yet the, gendered cultures of young children in the early years of South African primary schools remains a, marginal concern in debate, research and…
Descriptors: Working Class, Young Children, Foreign Countries, Sexual Identity
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Bhana, Deevia – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2008
Whenever gender violence and schooling have been the topic of South African research, the investigations focus on African boys in secondary schools. In contrast, this paper focuses on the ways in which violence is mobilized by African schoolgirls in a working-class primary school context. By drawing on selected elements of an ethnographic study of…
Descriptors: Violence, Females, Ethnography, Adult Basic Education