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Are Children's Views of the "Enemy" Shaped by a Highly-Publicized Negative Event?
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Oppenheimer, Louis – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2010
In the beginning of the first decade of this century, some highly-publicized extremistic acts of terror occurred. A hostage tragedy in a school in Beslan (North Ossetia) was followed in the Netherlands by the brutal murder of the controversial Dutch filmmaker and newspaper columnist Theo van Gogh, bomb attacks in Bali and Madrid and other acts of…
Descriptors: Terrorism, Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages
Do Actions Speak Louder than Words? Classroom Attitudes and Behavior in Relation to Bullying in Early Adolescence
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Scholte, Ron; Sentse, Miranda; Granic, Isabela – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2010
The aim of the present study was to examine to what extent classroom factors (i.e., classroom antibullying attitudes and behavioral norms) contributed to individual bullying, after controlling for individual difference characteristics. Participants were 2,547 early adolescents (M = 13.4 years, SD = 0.63) from 109 middle school classes. Self- and…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Bullying, Early Adolescents, Middle School Students
Government Policy and the Framework of a Core Curriculum for Junior Secondary Education.
van Velzen, W. J. J. – 1986
Middle school curriculum development in the Netherlands is following two divergent paths, and the central government should bring about unification. This paper describes change in administrative dominance of curriculum and management of curriculum programs since 1975, analyzes outcomes, and recommends unification. After program initiation,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Research, Federal Programs, Foreign Countries