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Rudzani Israel Lumadi – Perspectives in Education, 2024
School violence plays a significant role in shaping a school's culture and climate, which can have an impact on the participation and performance of learners in secondary education. In many instances, school violence can hinder the educational aspirations of learners. This paper investigates the impact of school violence on learners through the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Violence, School Culture, Educational Environment
Lee, Daniel B.; Schmidt, Carissa J.; Heinze, Justin E.; Carter, Patrick M.; Cunningham, Rebecca M.; Walton, Maureen A.; Zimmerman, Marc A. – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Firearm injury is a significant public health concern among youth living in the United States. Youth with exposure to violence (ETV) are more susceptible to carrying and using a firearm. Few researchers, however, have examined psychological mechanisms undergirding the association between ETV and firearm aggression. Retaliatory attitudes have been…
Descriptors: Weapons, Injuries, Urban Areas, Violence
Jonita R. Shabazz – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Historically, students of color have experienced an increased risk for exclusionary discipline outcomes (Children's Defense Fund, 1975). Discipline disproportionality continues to be a major problem in our schools today (McIntosh et al., 2018). The focus of most of the research has been on African American males; however, African American females…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Discipline, African American Students, Females
Nickerson, Amanda B. – Educational Leadership, 2018
In light of recent highly publicized and tragic incidents, such as the February 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, school communities are increasingly concerned about student and teacher safety. School leaders, politicians, and community members are frantically seeking solutions to the problem of school…
Descriptors: School Safety, Violence, Weapons, Social Development
Becerra, César E. – Education and Culture, 2018
The following work is intended to be a closer look and commentary on the issue of gun violence and mass shootings in the United States of America. An overarching pragmatic lens will be utilized to argue that the time is now to make a change in our current trajectory of normalized gun violence in our schools, and society in general. We currently…
Descriptors: Weapons, Violence, Educational Environment, Educational Philosophy
Geis, Paul J. – Philosophical Studies in Education, 2019
David Blacker points to a problematic decline in personal freedoms, including student speech rights: "[A]s the 'educational mission' of schools moves ineluctably even further toward warehousing and surveillance--pre-jail--then remaining intra-institutional speech rights will easily be quashed." Critical of the elastic conception of…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Activism, Student Rights, Freedom of Speech
Lam, Kevin D. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2019
This article provides an analysis of Asian American gang violence within the context of racialization and the legacy of imperialism. The analysis is grounded in a specific study of the Van Nuys (CA) Asian Boys gang and the particularities of Asian American gang violence in Southern California during the 1990s. Drawing from historical writings on…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Youth, Violence, Juvenile Gangs
Zicarelli, Brianna M. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this study was too explore the growing dilemma of school shootings and if the placement of armed staff members was the best approach in providing a safe environment for students and faculty alike, while still being beneficial to education. This study looks into school districts across the country of many different sizes. Different…
Descriptors: Weapons, Violence, School Personnel, Police
Schildkraut, Jaclyn; Grogan, Kathryn – WestEd, 2019
With the tragedies of school violence igniting calls for increased safety and security, one popular proposal is to use metal detectors in schools. To address questions about what impact such devices may have on day-to-day safety and on what happens during school violence events, this research brief summarizes what is known about metal detectors in…
Descriptors: School Safety, Violence, School Security, Incidence
Ríos, Cati; Portillo, Yared; Cantero, Bryan – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2022
The performing arts, specifically the Mexican balladry called corridos, can offer new vistas for what constitutes civic inclusion, poetics, and worldmaking for racially and linguistically minoritized youth. This paper provides a textual analysis of "El Llanto de El Paso," a corrido (ballad) written by youth balladeer, Josué Rodríguez,…
Descriptors: Singing, Mexicans, Performance, Music
Johnson, Dré; Barsky, Allan E. – School Social Work Journal, 2020
In response to mass gun shooting incidents in schools, some school districts have been hiring additional social workers to help prevent further incidents. This qualitative study will explore the potential roles that school social workers may play, including early identification and intervention, screening, risk assessment, crisis intervention,…
Descriptors: Violence, Weapons, School Safety, Prevention
Curran, F. Chris; Fisher, Benjamin W.; Viano, Samantha L. – Journal of School Violence, 2020
Following high-profile school shootings, policymakers and educators seek ways to prevent such shootings, but there has been little research on school-level responses in the immediate aftermath of such events. This study examines how school-level security measures and practices changed after the 1999 Columbine shooting using a nationally…
Descriptors: Violence, School Safety, Weapons, School Security
Perkins, Jessica M.; Perkins, H. Wesley; Craig, David W. – Youth & Society, 2019
This study explores misperceptions about peer norms in support of telling authorities about weapons at school and whether perceptions predict personal support for telling authorities. Anonymous surveys were conducted among youth in 30 schools (Grades 5-12) in six states (n = 12,903) between 2006 and 2014. Personal support for telling principals,…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Student Attitudes, Peer Relationship, Norms
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
Cobb, Kevin Devon – Online Submission, 2021
The problem addressed by this study is how violence in the school affects school safety teams' perceptions of safety. School safety teams are often made up of a principal, counselor, school resource officer and a teacher, in an effort to address safety issues in the school. Studies show that students tend to report unsafe behaviors in school the…
Descriptors: School Safety, Violence, Educational Environment, Urban Schools