Systemic Violence
Subtitle: How Schools Hurt Children
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: November 1, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780750705820
Subjects: Educational psychology; Organization & management of education; Violence in society; Education; Education / Teaching; Politics/International Relations; Elementary; Classroom management; Education / Elementary; Education / General; Schools
First sentence: By the early twentieth century, the educational state and the eugenics movement in Canada had formed a partnership of Puritanical proportions, inflicting a tyranny of social controls and devastating the lives of disadvantaged children who were capriciously classified as feeble-minded and unfit for breeding (Curtis, 1988; McLaren, 1990; Weber, 1958).