"Mean Girls" Go to College: Exploring Female-Female Relational Bullying in an Undergraduate Literacy Methods Course

The primary context for this qualitative investigation was an upper elementary literacy methods course in a preservice teacher education program. Sixteen White monolingual women were enrolled in the course. The researchers explored how 6 key informants from the first author's literacy methods c...

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Published in:Peace and conflict 2014-11, Vol.20 (4), p.516-535
Main Authors: Brock, Cynthia H, Oikonomidoy, Eleni M, Wulfing, Kristina, Pennington, Julie L, Obenchain, Kathryn M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aggression
Bullying
Cliques
College Students
Colleges
Cultural Pluralism
Curricula
Female
Females
Human
Human Females
Interaction
Literacy
Perceptions
Preservice Teachers
Qualitative Methods
Social interaction
Student behavior
Students
Teacher Education
Teachers
Whites
Women
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Summary:The primary context for this qualitative investigation was an upper elementary literacy methods course in a preservice teacher education program. Sixteen White monolingual women were enrolled in the course. The researchers explored how 6 key informants from the first author's literacy methods course perceived their social and academic relationships in the course. Results revealed that the informants had different perceptions of their course experiences based on their roles in the course. Six of the students were members of a clique that engaged in relational bullying. Using multimodality and multicultural literature as conceptual lenses, the researchers examine the nature of student interactions in the course and theorize the processes by which the clique's bullying behaviors might be explained and mitigated.
ISSN:1078-1919
1532-7949
DOI:10.1037/pac0000035