Spinning our wheels: reconceptualizing bullying beyond behaviour-focused approaches.
Bullying behaviours remain common in schools despite an abundance of policies and programs aimed at curbing them. In this paper, the author argues that such policies and programs are problematic not because they are flawed in themselves, but because they draw from the dominant and usual ideas about...
| Published in: | Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 131 - 145 |
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Feb2011
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