Overview

This book provides an in-depth, multidisciplinary framework and case-study analysis for understanding the root causes of violence in schooling. Drawing on critical theory, psychology, neuroscience and learning theory, the author provides a holistic analysis of how violent epistemology and the non-conducive circumstances that it produces can be seen to be at the roots of violence in societies and social institutions such as schools.

Chapter 1

Outlines how current and historical theories of violence, and interventions based on them, have failed due to their inability to properly conceptualise the root causes of violence.

Chapters 2

Addresses this by providing a new epistemic and methodological framework for studying violence.

Chapters 3 and 4

Demonstrate how violence can be best conceptualised as a problem of specifically violent epistemology and the non-conducive social circumstances that it fosters.

Chapters 5-7

Demonstrate in practice how violent epistemology results in multiple manifestations of violence at the global, national, local, and ultimately classroom level.

Chapter 8

Concludes the book by presenting an early conceptualisation of non-violent epistemology, and what fostering this might look like in practice.