IN THIS COMPREHENSIVE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY VOLUME, EXPERTS FROM A WIDE
RANGE FIELDS EXPLORE VIOLENCE IN EDUCATION’S DIFFERENT FORMS,
CONTRIBUTING FACTORS, AND CONTEXTUAL NATURE.
With contributions from noted experts in a wide-range of scholarly and
professional fields, _The Wiley Handbook on Violence in Education_
offers original research and essays that address the troubling issue
of violence in education. The authors show the different forms that
violence takes in educational contexts, explore the factors that
contribute to violence, and provide innovative perspectives and
approaches for prevention and response. This multidisciplinary volume
presents a range of rigorous research that examines violence from both
micro- and macro- approaches.
In its twenty-nine chapters, this comprehensive volume’s fifty-nine
contributors, representing thirty-three universities from the United
States and six other countries, examines violence’s distinctive
forms and contributing factors. This much-needed volume:
* Addresses the complexities of violence in education with essays
from experts in the fields of sociology, psychology, criminology,
education, disabilities studies, forensic psychology, philosophy, and
critical theory
* Explores the many forms of school violence including physical,
verbal, linguistic, social, legal, religious, political, structural,
and symbolic violence
* Reveals violence in education’s stratified nature in order to
achieve a deeper understanding of the problem
* Demonstrates how violence in education is deeply situated in
schools, communities, and the broader society and culture
* Offers new perspectives and proposals for prevention and response
_The Wiley Handbook on Violence in Education_ is designed to help
researchers, educators, policy makers, and community leaders
understand violence in educational settings and offers innovative,
effective approaches to this difficult challenge.
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9781118966693
Publisert
2018
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Wiley-Blackwell
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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