Attempts to Make Meaning of Terror: Family, Play, and School in Time of Civil War.

Assal, Adel; Farrell, Edwin

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ERIC Number: EJ455287

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Publication Date: 1992

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Attempts to Make Meaning of Terror: Family, Play, and School in Time of Civil War.

Assal, Adel; Farrell, Edwin

Anthropology and Education Quarterly, v23 n4 p275-90 Dec 1992

Investigates how Lebanese youth attempt to confer meaning on the events of their lives in the midst of civil war. Numerous and intensive interviews of children, adolescents, parents, and teachers from different factions show that the meanings many young people make from their fears are inadequate. (SLD)

Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Coping, Defense Mechanisms, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Environment, Fear, Foreign Countries, Play, Political Parties, Revolution, Stress Management, Stress Variables, Student Attitudes, Terrorism, War

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Lebanon

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