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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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Mayeza, Emmanuel – Gender and Education, 2017
This paper is based on an ethnographic study conducted between 2012 and 2014 with a group of 64 boys and girls aged 6-10, all attending the same township primary school in South Africa. The paper explores how the young children construct gender "boundaries" and "police" gender "transgressions" on the school playground…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Team Sports, Gender Bias, Sex Role
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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