ABSTRACT

This book takes a new angle on a much-studied phenomenon, focusing on the role of domination and identity construction, understanding and self-knowledge, moral transformation and the social community, systems of training and hierarchy used by schooling, and the role they play in bullying. Exploring typical narratives of value within schooling (i.e., who counts and who doesn’t?), the volume shows how bullying might make sense to a student as a pathway of identity construction within such stories (discourses and practices taken up by schools). It suggests how we can "tell a new story" and create a new culture which might undermine, or close off, the allure of bullying as a "need-meeting" avenue for students within schools.

chapter |9 pages

The Southside Bump Game

An Introduction

chapter |31 pages

Bullying Research

What bullying looks like and where it comes from

chapter |4 pages

Current Anti-Bullying Work

A Fly in the Ointment

chapter |15 pages

Student Identity Construction

Rethinking the Dominance of Bullying

chapter |13 pages

Dominance and Schooling

Parallel Narratives from the Same Cloth

chapter |11 pages

Need, Stories, and Moral Life

Behavior Comes from Somewhere

chapter |17 pages

Re-Storying a School

Resistance, Taxonomy, and Kindergarten

chapter |46 pages

Toward a Holistic Anti-Bullying Model

Culture, Safety, and Moral Transformation