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Head Teacher and Principal Realities

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Gender Regulation, Violence and Social Hierarchies in School

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The following two chapters integrate references to relevant literature with results and discussion of the study. This structure situates the productions of the participants within wider social, political, historical or cultural frameworks. Information about which group is speaking can be found underneath each quote.

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    All quotes in this paragraph were from Wilson High head teacher focus group 1.

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Rawlings, V. (2017). Head Teacher and Principal Realities. In: Gender Regulation, Violence and Social Hierarchies in School. Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52302-0_4

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