Systemic violence : how schools hurt children / edited by Juanita Ross Epp and Ailsa M. Watkinson.

1.Schools, complicity and sources of violence. Juanita Ross Epp -- Part 1.School complicity in child abuse -- 2.Dangerous liaison: the Eugenics movement and the educational state. Sheila Martineau -- 3.Child abuse and teacher\'s work: the voice of frustration. Rosonna Tite -- 4.Systemic barriers between home and school. Sharon M. Abbey -- Part 2.Schools and violence -- 5.Expanding the lens: student perceptionis of school violence. Ireland M. MacDonald -- 6.Voices from the shadows. Linda Wason-Ellam -- 7.Disclosure and resistance: girls\' silence in an Inner-city classroom. Carol Leroy -- 8.Masculinities and schooling: the making of men. Blye W. Frank -- Part 3.Pedagogy: violation or vindication? -- 9.Argument as conquest: rhetoric and rape. Lisa Jadwin -- 10.Men\'s minds and women\'s matters: digging at the roots of androcentric epistemologies. Sandra Monteath -- 11.Literacy tasks and social change: voices and a view from somewhere. Lorraine Cathro -- Part 4.Legal violence -- 12.Suffer the little children who come into schools. Ailsa M. Watkinson -- 13.Postscript: Making cnetral the peripheral. Juanita Ross Epp.

This text examines the negative practices of schools which are resulting in school systems failing students. Such practices include intrusive authoritarian administrative structures and procedures; inappropriate discipline; unrealistic expectations; and placid exceptance of exclusionary practices.