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Heikkilä, Mia – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
This article aims to summarise research on this topic; analyse, reflect on and discuss earlier research on play and learning using a few empirical examples; and determine what constitutes an appropriate educational approach concerning war and weapon within an early childhood education and care (ECEC) setting. This is done by putting feminist…
Descriptors: Males, Weapons, Play, War
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Jiménez-Villamizar, María P.; Campo-Arias, Adalberto; Caballero-Domínguez, Carmen C. – Psychology in the Schools, 2022
The purpose of this study is to identify the prevalence and factors associated with weapon carrying in Colombian high-school students. A cross-sectional study was designed to analyze this phenomenon among students aged between 13 and 17 years. A sample of 1462 students participated, 18.46% of which reported having planned suicide, 56.16% reported…
Descriptors: Weapons, Incidence, High School Students, Marijuana
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Brown, Brande; Ruggles, Kelly V.; Le, Francesca T.; Rajan, Sonali – Journal of School Health, 2021
Background: Among adolescents, the pathway from being offered drugs to engaging in drug use has been established. The prevalence of drug transactions specifically in schools is less understood. The purpose of this study was to identify the prevalence of adolescents who have reported drug transaction experiences (being offered, sold, or given an…
Descriptors: Drug Use, Adolescents, High School Students, Incidence
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Beck, Bernard – Multicultural Perspectives, 2019
Contradictions between precious ideals and social realities are often handled by locating the problems of inequality in a limited setting, so that the rest of social life will not be disturbed. Racial inequality in America, starting with slavery, is concretely expressed in the troubled relations between agencies of social control, like the police,…
Descriptors: African Americans, Racial Bias, Social Bias, United States History
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de Carvalho, Thaís – Global Studies of Childhood, 2021
In Andean countries, the "pishtaco" is understood as a White-looking man that steals Indigenous people's organs for money. In contemporary Amazonia, the Shipibo-Konibo people describe the "pishtaco" as a high-tech murderer, equipped with a sophisticated laser gun that injects electricity inside a victim's body. This paper looks…
Descriptors: Whites, Males, American Indians, Weapons
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Welsh, Richard O. – Educational Policy, 2022
School discipline is a salient challenge in K-12 districts nationwide. The majority of prior studies have focused on suspensions with relatively little attention paid to other forms of exclusionary discipline. This mixed-methods study provides a descriptive analysis of overlooked disciplinary consequences, namely, assignment to alternative…
Descriptors: Discipline Policy, Hearings, School Districts, Nontraditional Education
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Liu, Yuxin; Mao, Lida; Zhao, Yunan; Huang, Yufang – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2018
Purpose: To create a high-stress shooting among the crowd (SAC) program and to examine its effectiveness in reducing SWAT trainees' stress level and their shooting performance in a simulated hostage-rescue situation. Method: After the SAC program was created, it was evaluated using a pretest and posttest experimental design: 98 young male SWAT…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Weapons, Simulation, Stress Variables
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Price, James H.; Khubchandani, Jagdish – American Journal of Health Education, 2017
Background: The United States has more than 90% of all youth firearm deaths that occur in high-income countries. Purpose: We summarize the epidemiological literature on the prevalence, risk factors, and protective factors associated with adolescent homicides and suicides and the role of firearms in the loss of these lives. Methods: A systematic…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Homicide, Suicide, Weapons