First published in 1986, John Schostak discusses the educational, social and moral implications of the violent imagination in connection with theories of violence, childrearing practices, and schooling as a childrearing institution. He also looks at the relation between sexism, racism, drugs and the emergence of a vandalised sense of self.

Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. Introduction 2. Conceiving Violence 3. Rearing Children 4. Schooling, Community and the Emergence of the Vandalised Self 5. Racism 6. Sex and Sexism: Public Action and Private Parts 7. Violence and the Construction of Reality 8. Lessons of Violence. Last Rights. Bibliography. Name Index. Subject Index.