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Contesting the Balance of Power: Toward Education for Personal and Social Transformation

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The purpose of this paper is to describe manifestations of power what we call violence in schooling. We define power as the ability to alter the range of someone’s options and consider violence the force that limits someone’s agency. In schooling we suggest that power is consonant to all schooling experiences, but violence is inflicted on certain students in particular ways. We categorize this type of violence as socio-institutional violence, epistemic violence, and interactional/relational. We theorize the relationship between power and violence and then outline how schooling leads to violence. Lastly, we offer examples of violence and concordant analyses to illuminate how institutions, ideologies, and practices legitimize scholastic violence thereby affirming and buttressing oppressive social relations of power and production.

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