Awakening a Sense of Injustice

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  • Brett Stoudt John Jay College of Criminal Justice

https://doi.org/10.4471/mcs.2012.09

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Rockport is an elite, all boys, day school in the northeast United States. It educates mostly white, wealthy, young men. Student researchers, faculty researchers and I collaborated to study bullying at Rockport using an approach to research known as participatory action research (PAR). In the process we also gained a better understanding of how privilege, especially gendered privilege, was socialized and (re)produced. The participatory research spaces that emerged in our project - grounded in the experiences of students, teachers, and administrators - facilitated critical awareness of self and context that Deutsch (2006) referred to as "awaking the sense of injustice." Over the course of a year, our research at Rockport collected data of local consequence and in doing so, built institutional momentum that has since become a school-wide and ongoing initiative to address bullying. As a result, this work was a form of counter-hegemonic action.

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2012-06-21

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Stoudt, B. (2012). Awakening a Sense of Injustice. Masculinities &Amp; Social Change, 1(2), 134–164. https://doi.org/10.4471/mcs.2012.09

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