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Letendre, Joan; Smith, Ellen – Children & Schools, 2011
Girl fighting and its relational context is a problem that is receiving extensive attention in popular and academic circles. This article reports on a project that gathered the opinions from focus groups of seventh- and eighth-grade girls, organized to understand the perspectives of young adolescent girls in middle school on girl fighting. Both…
Descriptors: Females, Early Adolescents, Middle School Students, Violence
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Peterson, Jean Sunde; Ray, Karen E. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2006
One portion of a national study of bullying, which surveyed gifted 8th graders regarding bullying during their school years (N = 432), used structured interviews (N = 57) to explore the lived experience of being bullied or being a bully. Qualitative analysis of interview data found that even just one incident was highly distressing for some. Also…
Descriptors: Bullying, Academically Gifted, Surveys, Grade 8
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Oliver, Christine; Candappa, Mano – Oxford Review of Education, 2007
This paper reports on a study of pupils' views about tackling bullying and discusses the findings in the context of related research on "telling" and other coping strategies. The research was undertaken in two related phases. In the first phase, in-depth focus groups were conducted with pupils in Years 5 and 8 in twelve participating…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Measures (Individuals), Coping, Bullying