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Teacher-Directed Violence by Students in Western Australia: An Exploratory Study
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Love, Evalena; Picknoll, Duncan; Chivers, Paola; Farringdon, Fiona; Rycroft, Paul – Issues in Educational Research, 2020
Teacher-directed violence (TDV) by students is a growing concern in Western Australia (WA) with 8,500 students suspended in 2017 for committing TDV. This study investigates the prevalence of TDV reported by WA primary and secondary teachers, as well as the associations between TDV and gender, education sector and Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Violence, Teacher Student Relationship, Incidence
Coaching Whiteness: Stories of "Pacifica Exotica" in Australian High School Rugby
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McDonald, Brent – Sport, Education and Society, 2016
The intersection of sport and education is a potentially powerful site for the production of class and gender. This paper examines how the relationship between sport and education can also serve to (re)produce ideas about "race". Drawing on research conducted during my time as a coach of the first XV rugby team at an elite private school…
Descriptors: Team Sports, Private Schools, High School Students, Athletic Coaches
Disruptive Events: Elite Education and the Discursive Production of Violence
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Saltmarsh, Sue – Critical Studies in Education, 2008
This paper considers the discursive production of violence in the context of educational markets. Drawing on a larger study of sexually violent incidents that occurred in an elite private boys' school in Sydney, Australia, in 2000, the paper examines disciplinary traditions and communicative practices surrounding these events. Insights from Michel…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Single Sex Schools, Private Schools, Competitive Selection
Cultural Complicities: Elitism, Heteronormativity and Violence in the Education Marketplace
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Saltmarsh, Sue – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2007
Educational discourse in Australia has been dramatically altered in recent decades as neoliberal choice policies favouring an increasingly marketized, tiered educational landscape have witnessed a burgeoning of private sector schooling. In this climate, many perceive private sector schooling as providing moral, social and academic benefits beyond…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ideology, Private Sector, Public Sector
Masculinities and Violence: Interruption of Hegemonic Discourses in an English Classroom
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Hatchell, Helen – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2006
In this paper I explore ways in which adolescent male students perceive war and violence and related gender discourses. My research is situated in a Year 10 English classroom in a private boys' school in Perth, Australia. Interviews with students and their teacher provide opportunities to explore perceptions and ideas on issues relating to war and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Males, Masculinity
The Market, the Media and the Family in a School Excursion Rape Case
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Gannon, Susanne – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2007
This paper examines a local and specific instance of the effects of neoliberal markets on individual and institutional subjects of schooling. It reviews a court case between a prestigious private girls' school and an ex-student who sued the school for failing to provide adequate supervision on a school trip to Europe during which she was raped. It…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sexual Harassment, Sexuality, Court Litigation