1. Introduction School is a medium that seeks to promote positive direction to learners. It serves to instil knowledge and skills needed for them to contribute to their communities. However, within this positive image, it has become evident that schools are infiltrated by violence. Burton and Leoschut (2012) see violence as something which does not start in schools; or is initiated by learners only. It has come to attention that violence comes from teachers as well. In an attempt to understand the
Perspectives on Youth Violence 2.1 Introduction Youth violence is viewed in this study as a social problem rooted in structural and socio-cultural and socio-political influences, rather than as individual pathology or flawed interpersonal relations alone. Thus, because social values and cultural norms shape youth violence and provide meaning and direction for this phenomenon, researchers should consider cross-cultural studies and social group differentiation in youth violence manifestation, to be
Gender-based violence (GBV) has been a major public health and a human rights concern across the globe. In most developing countries gender based violence is a manifestation of discrimination and low status given to some populations such as women and youth. This study was conducted in Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST) among second years with the aim of establishing the risk factors that perpetuate Gender Based Violence among them and gathering factual evidence as a tool
et.al., school violence is youth violence that occurs on school property, on the way to or from school or school-sponsored events, or during a school-sponsored event. A young person can be a victim, a perpetrator, or a witness of school violence. School violence may also involve or impact adults. Youth violence includes various behaviors. Some violent acts such as bullying, pushing, and shoving can cause more emotional harm than physical harm. Other forms of violence, such as gang violence and assault
EMPOWERMENT AS A MEANS TO ACHIEVE GENDER EQUALITY I. HOW TO ACHIEVE SUSTAINABLE GENDER EQUALITY By assuring the access of women to education, decent work, proper and universal health care, as well as representation in economics and politics, both the economy and society will be very benefited, while achieving gender equality will contribute to creating a nonviolent, flourishing and sustainable world. As explained in the previous section, the inequalities and violence suffered by women are hard to tackle
Introduction: Gender-based violence (GBV) is the general term used to capture violence that occurs as a result of the normative role prospects linked with each gender, along with the unequal power relationships between the two genders, within the context of a specific society (Bloom 2008, p14).While women, girls, men and boys can be victims of GBV, the main focus is on violence against women and girls. This is not to say that gender-based violence against men does not exist. For instance, men can
Sexual assault has become an economic issue, and it also occurs in schools as well. Statistics show that reported sexual assault cases are in mostly in black schools than in multi-racial schools. Sexual assault can cause post-traumatic stress which may result in a drastic decline in the performance of the sexually assaulted learner. It often happens to girls where a boy sexually assaults a girl but boys can also become victims of sexual assault in situations where a boy or even a girl assaults another
foreign TV series, documentaries, news and sports programs are the ones that were allowed to watch apart from children’s programs. Related to the cartoons that children watch, majority of parents could name a film and they also think that scenes of violence, killing, fighting, guns and harmful behaviors should be presented in a way that won’t physically harm the child and cartoons that are appropriate to watch are the ones that have educational, instructional, entertaining features developing imagination
devastating. The masculinity crisis is also happening within families, schools, religion, and sports; all of these structures meant to preserve strict gender guidelines for boys and men. What is being done to release the tight hold masculinity has on “being a man”? Boyle raises an important question in her article about the movie Goon, she states, “it is puzzling of why so few people problematized the depiction of enforcing violence and masculinity” (2014). This statement
institutions making them believe they should not be who they are. In this paper, we will go over how the textbook theorizes institutional discrimination and violence, how Saffin showcases discrimination and violence against trans people of color as both intersectional and institutional, and explain how institutional discrimination and violence are showcased in education. The textbook states that discrimination is “maintained through complex sets of social institutions that interacts with, structure