Watkins, Chris and Mauthner, Melanie and Hewitt, Roger and Epstein, Debbie and Leonard, Diana (2007) School violence, school differences and school discourses. British Educational Research Journal, 33 (1). pp. 61-74. ISSN Print: 0141-1926 Online: 1469-3518
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Abstract
This article highlights one strand of a study which investigated the concept of the violenceresilient school. In six inner-city secondary schools, data on violent incidents in school and violent crime in the neighbourhood were gathered, and compared with school practices to minimise violence, accessed through interviews. Some degree of association between the patterns of behaviour and school practices was found: schools with a wider range of wellconnected practices seemed to have less difficult behaviour. Interviews also showed that the different schools had different organisational discourses for construing school violence, its possible causes and the possible solutions. Differences in practices are best understood in connection with differences in these discourses. Some of the features of school discourses are outlined, including their range, their core metaphor and their silences. We suggest that organisational discourse is an important concept in explaining school effects and school differences, and that improvement attempts could have clearer regard to this concept.
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| Additional Information: | This is an electronic version of an article published in Watkins, Chris and Mauthner, Melanie and Hewitt, Roger and Epstein, Debbie and Leonard, Diana (2007) School violence, school differences and school discourses. British Educational Research Journal, 33 (1). pp. 61-74. journal]. ritish Educational Research Journal is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com/10.1080/01411920601104441 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Qualitative analysis Ecological study Violence, aggression & bullying School effectiveness |
| Subjects: | Departments > London Centre for Leadership in Learning Departments > Education Foundations and Policy Studies |
| Depositing User: | IOE Repository Editor (2) |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Apr 2010 09:09 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jun 2012 22:30 |
| URI: | http://eprints.ioe.ac.uk/id/eprint/2820 |
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