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Schooling the Mean Girl: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Teacher Resource Materials
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Bethune, Jennifer; Gonick, Marnina – Gender and Education, 2017
This paper is a critical discourse analysis of teacher resource materials about girl bullying. The "mean girl" phenomenon has been widely taken up as one of the current key narratives about schools and school girls. This paper argues for the importance of understanding the origins of this discourse within behavioural psychology, which…
Descriptors: Females, Discourse Analysis, Aggression, Psychology
Unruly Affect in the Kindergarten Classroom: A Critical Analysis of Social-Emotional Learning
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Stearns, Clio – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2018
This article offers a critique of social-emotional learning programs through the lens of psychoanalytic theory and with a particular focus on the theoretical contributions of Kleinian psychoanalysis. In particular, the article draws on concepts of affective positions to show that social-emotional learning is mired in a paranoid-schizoid mentality…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Metacognition, Self Control
"We Won't Get Ahead Speaking like That!" Expressing and Managing Language Criticism in Hawai'i
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Marlow, Mikaela L.; Giles, Howard – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2010
Ample research has explored language attitudes and speaker evaluations, yet it has not attended to direct incidences of language criticism. This article presents evidence demonstrating that a majority of those surveyed in Hawai'i have experienced language criticism. Coded data suggest that criticism takes place during employment, educational,…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Multilingualism, Criticism, Surveys
Adolescent Relations with Their Mothers, Siblings, and Peers: An Exploration of the Roles of Maternal and Adolescent Self-Criticism
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Yu, Jeong Jin; Gamble, Wendy C. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2009
The main purpose of the present study was to investigate self-criticism as a potential mediating factor in the link between mother-adolescent relationships with aggression and perceptions of social competence. The sample consisted of 888 older (M = 14.3 years) and younger (M = 11.6 years) adolescent children from the same family. Maternal…
Descriptors: Siblings, Mothers, Interpersonal Competence, Family Relationship
Pretreatment Social Relations, Therapeutic Alliance, and Improvements in Parenting Practices in Parent Management Training
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Kazdin, Alan E.; Whitley, Moira K. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2006
The authors examined the parent-therapist alliance in parent management training for children (N = 218; 53 girls and 165 boys, ages 2-14) referred clinically for oppositional, aggressive, and antisocial behavior. The interrelations of pretreatment parent social relationships, the parent-therapist alliance over the course of treatment, and…
Descriptors: Therapy, Child Rearing, Parenting Styles, Antisocial Behavior
Negative Side Effects of Noncontingent Reinforcement.
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Vollmer, Timothy R.; And Others – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1997
Concerns about noncontingent reinforcement (NCR) are illustrated in a case study of a 13-year-old girl with severe mental retardation who was demonstrating severe aggression. Her NCR treatment produced an extinction burst and incidental reinforcement. A brief omission contingency was added to the reinforcement schedule, which resulted in decreased…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Children