Because university campuses are microcosms of broader political and social climates, the increasingly polarized climates outside universities can permeate the classroom, challenging faculty who teach topics characterized by controversy and discomfort. We conducted a lesson study project at a college in the southeastern United States in three…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how the particular culture within which research is conducted and its norms and values can give rise to additional challenges and complications for the researcher when the research area is sensitive in nature. Design/methodology/approach: Drawing on research on sexual harassment of working women…

The experiences of a seventh-grade teacher in helping female students combat sexual harassment and in establishing a school sexual harassment policy show that sexism in the schools is hard to change and that much of the trauma of adolescence is related to the system's perpetuation of male dominance. (SLD)

Violence-prevention policies stress high-tech security measures and zero tolerance over compassion. Student policing is intensifying, despite declining youth violence, rarity of shootings, and failure of police protection. Suburban youth violence is rooted in masculinity misconceptions and sexual harassment. Education, not retribution, should…