Feeling Scared. Safety in the Schools

Autor/in	Cottle, Thomas J.
Titel	Feeling Scared. Safety in the Schools
Quelle	In: Educational Horizons, 83 (2004) 1, S.42-54 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-175X
Schlagwörter	Bullying; Antisocial Behavior; Student Behavior; School Safety; Educational Environment; Parent Influence; Parent Child Relationship; Independent Living; Student Diversity + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mobbing; Student behaviour; Schülerverhalten; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Selbstverantwortung
Abstract	If schools are unsafe, they are made so, in part, by those people, young and old, who appear to value neither living things nor material objects. Moreover, they are made so by young people, research reveals, who, although bullying their classmates and teachers, nonetheless often fail to meet the commonly held stereotype of the bully. It is interesting to note that among the children who eventually are brought to juvenile court, 50 percent will be adjudicated and never return. Apparently, the one episode that brought them before a judge was enough to, well, scare them straight. The other 50 percent represent a different story altogether. These are people characterized by learning disabilities, substance abuse, low IQ scores, and histories of suffering physical abuse. The culture may advertise its famous melting pot slogan, but everyone knows the true melting pot is the classroom and playground, where every variety of integration of turf and difference, not to mention every dynamic of the lower brain stem and cerebral cortex, has to be worked out. The fundamental principle of America's democracy is embodied in the school, where, irrespective of just who has decided to occupy the superior species, religious integration, sex integration, racial integration, and the inclusion of children with disabilities continue to be played out. And it will continue this way, whether people feel safe or not, until, ideally, in a world one can only imagine, all children will not only feel safe from the terrors of the outside as well as those of the inside; they will in fact be safe. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10