Spinning our wheels
Reconceptualizing Bullying Beyond Behaviour-Focused Approaches
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2937822 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gerald Walton (Lakehead University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 131-144 |
| Publication date | 2011-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0159-6306 • E-ISSN: 1469-3739 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01596306.2011.537079 |
| OpenAlex | W1999141707 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 47 |
| References cited | 14 |
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 what bullying is taken to be. These ideas are presented as more fundamental problems that contribute to ‘wheel-spinning’ where efforts to reduce bullying are concerned. Key concepts that inform such ideas, specifically safety and diversity, are interrogated. The paper advocates for a new framework by which to think about and conceptualize bullying that moves away from those that highlight behavioural and developmental perspectives. Implications for education administration, especially with regard to supporting marginalized students, are explored
Computer security · Criminology · Engineering ethics · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Workplace bullying · Behavioral and Psychological Studies · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression · Computer Science · Engineering · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Youth Development and Social Support
LGBTQ Kids, School Safety, and Missing the Big Picture
Limitations of focussing on homophobic, biphobic and transphobic ‘bullying’ to understand and address LGBT young people's experiences within and beyond school
Developing resources to address homophobic and transphobic bullying
Out queer teachers as role models for queer students? Implications drawn from closeted gay academics' experiences in China
‘I want to make a difference’
Consolidating a neoliberal agenda in education
Attending to slow violence
Challenges to implementing parent‐focused antibullying policies
Gaps between beliefs, perceptions, and practices
Transgressing purity
Reframing school bullying
Becoming neoliberal policy subjects
Bullying affects
Affective economies of loneliness in school
It’s the parents’
He failed to find his place in this school’ – re-examining the role of teachers in bullying in a Finnish comprehensive school
Queer Contingencies
Investigating the problem of bullying through photo elicitation
Because I am me
Violence and gender thresholds
Individual and Social-Contextual Factors Underlying Adolescents’ Commitment to Victimizing Friendships
Rethinking Safe Schools Approaches for LGBTQ Students
Reconfiguring the Politics of School Anti-Bullying Policy Making in Taiwan
Fourth Graders Confront an Injustice
Breaking out of the (anti)bullying ‘box’
‘I don’t care what’s under your clothes’
School bullying and bare life
Socialisation en négatif
A figurational approach to understanding school climate and peer harassment
Missing Structure
Approaches to Reduce Bullying in Schools – A Critical Analysis from the Viewpoint of First‐ and Second‐Order Perspectives on Bullying
Constructing and confronting bullying and normality at Finnish comprehensive schools from the perspective of critical bullying studies
A freak that no one can love”
Bullying the meek
The fear of being singled out
En/counters with disablist school violence
New perspectives on the positioning of parents in children’s bullying at school
The institutionalised momentum of slow violence
The construction and maintenance of exclusion, control and dominance through students’ social sitting practices
I am the black duck’ affective aspects of working-class mothers’ involvement in parental communities
The role of popular girls in bullying and intimidating boys and other popular girls in secondary school
It's not bullying’, ‘It's just a joke’
Social violence and the trivialising effects of youth in school bullying
A dangerous turn
Portraying monsters
Homophobia, transphobia, young people and the question of responsibility
Understanding Adolescent Narratives About 'Bullying' Through an Intersectional Lens
| Unique citing works | 47 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,36 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 44 |