A school shooting : bullying, violence and an institution's response

This thesis is an inquiry that examines how those who are marked different in school are also marked "wrong" and marginalized and how that marking often leads to bullying. It examines the significance that those markings have on those who are marked, on those who mark and on those who are witnesses. This is an analysis of bullying and a critique of an institution's response to bullying and its deleterious effects. The writing offers a connection between the particular and the universal. It tells of my personal experience while I was a teacher at a small town high school before, during and immediately after a violent incident that resulted in a death, against a backdrop feminist, critical, poststructural and postmodern theory, and academic dialogue that has helped me come to some understanding of the dominant discourses at play within this story. The writing is not merely the mode of telling the writing is the way to understanding, which must always precede the telling. Finally this thesis is a search for a healing home in which home-ness means a place open to being, rather than a place that defines the "right" way of being.

Grantor dc:publisher

Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Education, 2003

Year dc:date.issued

2003

Authors dc:creator

• Bertie-Holthe, Michelle
• University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Education

Advisor dc:contributor.supervisor

• Chambers, Cynthia

• Bullying -- United States -- Case studies
• School violence -- United States -- Case studies
• Dissertations, Academic

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Identifier

hdl:10133/153

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