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Moyo, Nathan; Gonye, Jairos – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2015
This study reframes Yvonne Vera's novel, "The Stone Virgins" as a potential secondary school literature text in the Zimbabwean curriculum through which a pedagogy of expiation could be re-imagined. The argument is that the traumatic experiences that Zimbabwe has gone through as a nation require open re-engagement and debate. The study…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Course Descriptions, Foreign Countries, Novels
Leach, Fiona; Machakanja, Pamela – 2000
This study found that the abuse of girls in the coeducational schools where the research took place was widespread and took the form of aggressive sexual behavior, intimidation and physical assault by older boys, sexual advances by male teachers, and corporal punishment and verbal abuse by both female and male teachers (on boys as well as girls).…
Descriptors: Aggression, Child Abuse, Foreign Countries, Gender Issues
Leach, Fiona – Compare, 2003
Examines role of schools and peer group culture in constructing male and female identity among adolescents in the context of gender violence. Discusses a United Kingdom Department for International Development funded study of abuse of girls in Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Ghana. Reveals contemplative sexual socialization processes in which male violence…
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Aggression, Bullying, Comparative Education