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Tensions between resistance and reproduction: high school teachers’ conceptualisation of and response to narratives of “rape culture” at school
Thesis (MEdPsych)--Stellenbosch University, 2023.
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/128866 Tensions between resistance and reproduction: high school teachers’ conceptualisation of and response to narratives of “rape culture” at school Ehlers, Kirsten Carolissen, Ronelle Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Education. Dept. of Educational Psychology. Rape culture Gender-based violence Eduction, Secondary Gender identity Teachers UCTD Thesis (MEdPsych)--Stellenbosch University, 2023. ENGLISH ABSTRACT: There is an increased focus on gender-based violence and rape culture, both in academic and popular domains. South Africa has one of the highest incidents of gender-based violence on which much research has focused, including studies conducted at schools where these behaviours and tendencies may be learned and reproduced. However, few studies on rape culture have been conducted in schools in affluent areas in South Africa. This qualitative study explores how teachers’ conceptualise and respond to experiences of rape culture in high school. It is grounded in both social constructionist and feminist theory. Eight teachers from a single, co-educational public high school serving an affluent area of the southern suburbs of Cape Town, South Africa, were selected as participants. The research included three phases: semi-structured individual interviews, participants’ written reflections and two focus group interviews focusing on the male and female participants respectively. The themes that emerged included narratives of defining gender inequality versus rape culture; the socialisation of rape culture; and narratives of tensions between resisting and reproducing rape culture in school policy, among the staff and among the student body. The findings suggested that as a site of socialisation, schools both challenge and perpetuate rape culture in different ways and at different levels. While the participants’ acknowledged the difficulty in challenging rape culture in schools, they also demanded it a necessity and a responsibility for schools to continuously and collaboratively tackle this challenge in various ways. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Daar is 'n groter fokus op geslagsgebaseerde geweld en verkragtingskultuur, beide in akademiese en populêre domeine. Suid-Afrika het een van die hoogste voorvalle van geslagsgebaseerde geweld waarop baie navorsing gefokus is, insluitend studies wat by skole uitgevoer is waar hierdie gedrag en neigings aangeleer en gereproduseer kan word. Min studies oor verkragtingskultuur is egter in skole in gegoede gebiede in Suid-Afrika gedoen. Hierdie kwalitatiewe studie ondersoek hoe onderwysers se ervarings van verkragtingskultuur in hoërskool konseptualiseer en daarop reageer. Dit is gegrond in beide sosiaal-konstruksionistiese en feministiese teorie. Agt onderwysers van 'n enkele, mede-opvoedkundige openbare hoërskool wat 'n gegoede area van die suidelike voorstede van Kaapstad, Suid-Afrika bedien, is as deelnemers gekies. Die navorsing het drie fases ingesluit: semi-gestruktureerde individuele onderhoude, deelnemers se geskrewe refleksies en twee fokusgroeponderhoude wat onderskeidelik op die manlike en vroulike deelnemers fokus. Die temas wat na vore gekom het, sluit in stories rondom die definisie van geslagsongelykheid teenoor verkragtingskultuur; die sosialisering van verkragtingskultuur; en stories van spanning tussen die weerstand teen en die reproduseer van verkragtingskultuur in skoolbeleide, onder die personeel en onder die studentekorps. Die bevindinge het voorgestel dat skole as 'n terrein van sosialisering die verkragtingskultuur op verskillende maniere en op verskillende vlakke uitdaag en voortduur. Terwyl die deelnemers erken het dat dit moeilik is om verkragtingskultuur in skole uit te daag, het hulle dit ook 'n noodsaaklikheid en 'n verantwoordelikheid vir skole geëis om hierdie uitdaging voortdurend en samewerkend op verskeie maniere aan te pak. Masters 2023-11-09T12:19:22Z 2024-01-08T13:55:25Z 2023-11-09T12:19:22Z 2024-01-08T13:55:25Z 2023-12 Thesis https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/128866 en Stellenbosch University xiii, 188 pages application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Rape culture Gender-based violence Eduction, Secondary Gender identity Teachers UCTD Ehlers, Kirsten Tensions between resistance and reproduction: high school teachers’ conceptualisation of and response to narratives of “rape culture” at school |
| title | Tensions between resistance and reproduction: high school teachers’ conceptualisation of and response to narratives of “rape culture” at school |
| title_full | Tensions between resistance and reproduction: high school teachers’ conceptualisation of and response to narratives of “rape culture” at school |
| title_fullStr | Tensions between resistance and reproduction: high school teachers’ conceptualisation of and response to narratives of “rape culture” at school |
| title_full_unstemmed | Tensions between resistance and reproduction: high school teachers’ conceptualisation of and response to narratives of “rape culture” at school |
| title_short | Tensions between resistance and reproduction: high school teachers’ conceptualisation of and response to narratives of “rape culture” at school |
| title_sort | tensions between resistance and reproduction high school teachers conceptualisation of and response to narratives of rape culture at school |
| topic | Rape culture Gender-based violence Eduction, Secondary Gender identity Teachers UCTD |
| url | https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/128866 |
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