Winter, Clare and McKenzie, Karen (2017) Teachers Perceptions of Female Student Aggression at an All-Girls School. Journal of Adolescent Research, 32 (4). pp. 509-525. ISSN 0743-5584
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Abstract
There has been limited research into how teachers view and respond to relational aggression in girls. The existing research is largely quantitative and questionnaire based and has indicated that gender stereotypes may influence teachers’ perceptions of female aggression. The present study adopted a qualitative approach, using semi-structured interviews to explore how seven teachers (six females and one male) working in a single sex (all girls) school, experienced and perceived female student aggression. The results were analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis and three themes were identified: the physicality of female aggression, aggression as the presence or absence of control, and community: aggression as a means of expressing belonging. These themes were discussed in the context of the need for a new language of female aggression, which promoted a genuine language of assertion for girls and women.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | aggression, adolescence, girls, school, teachers, assertion |
Subjects: | C800 Psychology |
Department: | Faculties > Health and Life Sciences > Psychology |
Depositing User: | Karen McKenzie |
Date Deposited: | 17 Oct 2016 15:43 |
Last Modified: | 01 Aug 2021 06:33 |
URI: | http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/28010 |
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