This paper presents a case study of one mother’s experience of engaging with her children’s schools after leaving a long-term relationship characterised by years of family violence perpetrated by the children’s father. We interviewed Bernadette as part of an ongoing study of parents’ experiences of school engagement during family separation and divorce. Her family circumstances and the role the children’s schools played in that story merit consideration by educators, school leaders and education policy makers. Informed by theories of everyday cultural practices and sociological studies of gendered power relations in education, we argue that gender politics and organisational strategies for keeping parents ‘in their place’ can significantly contribute to systemic failures and school cultures that reinscribe the effects of family violence.

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“我想告诉你这个人很危险……没有人在听”：家庭暴力、家长与学校的参与和学校的共谋

本文介绍了一位母亲在离开以孩子父亲多年家庭暴力为特征的长期关系后与孩子学校接触的案例研究。我们对 Bernadette 进行了采访，这是一项持续研究的一部分，该研究对家庭分居和离婚期间父母的学校参与经历进行了研究。她的家庭情况和孩子的学校在那个故事中扮演的角色值得教育工作者、学校领导和教育政策制定者考虑。受日常文化实践理论和教育中性别权力关系的社会学研究的启发，我们认为性别政治和让父母“就位”的组织策略可能会显着导致系统性失败和学校文化，从而重新体现家庭暴力的影响。