Parkes, Jenny;
Bhatia, Amiya;
Datzberger, Simone;
Nagawa, Rehema;
Naker, Dipak;
Devries, Karen;
(2022)
Addressing silences in research on girls’ experiences of teacher sexual violence: insights from Uganda.
Comparative Education
10.1080/03050068.2022.2133861.
(In press).
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Abstract
Growing evidence from multiple countries in Africa documents sexual violence in schools. However, when that violence is committed by teachers it is shrouded in secrecy. This article identifies disconnects between quantitative and qualitative research, policy and practice, which have contributed to these silences. We address some of these silences through a dialogical analysis of mixed methods data from the Contexts of Violence in Adolescence Cohort study (CoVAC) with young people in Uganda. The analysis illuminates girls’ experiences of sexual violence by school staff, and patterns of discrimination and inequality that increase vulnerabilities. The data reveal how schools vary in their institutional responses and, in the absence of institutional support, girls develop strategies to resist sexual coercion. Overall, our analysis exposes significant disconnects between policies and practices of sexual exploitation in schools. We conclude that dialogical, mixed methods research approaches have strong potential to better understand and address silences in policy and practice on highly sensitive topics.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Addressing silences in research on girls’ experiences of teacher sexual violence: insights from Uganda |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/03050068.2022.2133861 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/03050068.2022.2133861 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way |
| Keywords: | Education; Uganda; young people; sexual violence; mixed methods; gender |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10158380 |
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