School staff responses to gender-based bullying as moral interpretation: An exploratory study

Educational Policy

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 519-553

  Anagnostopoulos, Dorothea ^a   Buchanan, NiCole T ^a   Pereira, Christine ^a   Lichty, Lauren F ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bullying; Gender; High schools; Policy implementation; School violence; Sexual harassment; Sexual orientation

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449358524     PISSN: 08959048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0895904807312469     Document Type: Article

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