Students’ accounts of grooming and boundary-blurring behaviours by academic staff in UK higher education
Students’ accounts of grooming and boundary-blurring behaviours by academic staff in UK higher education
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学生对英国高等教育中学术人员的修饰和模糊界限行为的描述
作者：
A. Bull;Tiffany Page
摘要本文利用对试图向英国高等教育机构举报教职员工性行为不端行为的学生的定性访谈数据，分析了受访者的“打扮”经历和学术人员的模糊行为，其中同意的可能性受到教职员工和学生之间权力失衡的影响。“模糊边界”一词被用来描述超越(通常是默许的)职业界限的行为，而“修饰”指的是处于不平等权力地位的人之间随着时间推移这些行为的一种模式。这篇文章分析了受访者所描述的权力失衡，这些失衡创造了这些行为的背景。这些问题是由社会不平等构成的，包括性别、阶级和年龄，以及学生在其机构中的地位。这篇文章还探讨了异性恋化的常态如何使这种行为最小化和隐形。
ABSTRACT Drawing on data from qualitative interviews with students who had attempted to report staff sexual misconduct to their higher education institutions in the UK, the article analyses interviewees’ experiences of ‘grooming’ and boundary-blurring behaviours from academic staff where the possibility for consent was affected by the power imbalances between staff and students. The term ‘boundary-blurring’ is used to describe behaviours that transgress (often tacit) professional boundaries, and ‘grooming’ refers to a pattern of these behaviours over time between people in positions of unequal power. This article analyses the power imbalances interviewees described that created the context for these behaviours. These were constituted by social inequalities including gender, class, and age, as well as stemming from students’ position within their institutions. The article also explores how heterosexualised normativity allows such behaviours to be minimised and invisibilised.