Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2006. / Title from title screen (site viewed on Nov. 22, 2006). PDF text: x, 83 p. : ill. ; 0.35Mb. UMI publication number: AAT 3215321. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in microfilm and microfiche format.

Thesis (Ed.D.) -- Central Connecticut State University, 2006. / Thesis advisor: Ronnie Casella. "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education, Department of Educational Leadership." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 232-272). Also available via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (M.S.)--Ohio University, November, 2005. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-124)

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2006. / Title from title screen (site viewed on August 24, 2006). PDF text of dissertation: vii, 245 p. : ill. ; 3.81Mb. UMI publication number: AAT 3208051. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in microfilm, microfiche and paper format.

This study is based on student lifestyle and its contribution to personal victimization at University of Fort Hare in Alice campus. Social Science researchers such as Fisher, Sloan, Cullen, and Lu (1998) claim that there are many incidents of criminal victimization occurring on and off university campuses. The main purpose of this study is to find out whether there is any correlation between student lifestyle and personal victimization. There are many theories, concepts and available information regarding the issue of personal victimization among students, however, this notion is thriving, especially in higher institutions. The study examined the research objectives through lenses of theories such as lifestyle exposure theory, routine activities theory, rational choice theory which serve to elaborate more about the research topic. In this study data was collected using interviews and self-administered questionnaires for triangulation purposes. Some of the findings in this study were that there is vast majority of students who suffer from personal victimization on and off-campus due to students’ different lifestyles and lack of legal responsibility by the institution. First year females were found to be the majority of students who suffer from personal victimization due to their vulnerability in their residences. Based on these findings, recommendations such as tightening security measures around campus, educating students regarding victimization, and collaboration of the university with police officials were made.

Prior research addressing children's antisocial and prosocial behaviours have predominantly used a predetermined set of criteria which have been devised by adults. This psychological approach has lead to the perception of children as an individual phenomenon, using a dichotomy of behaviours consistently regardless of their immediate social environment. Therefore an argument is made for the use of an inductive, sociological approach in order to gain understanding of the everyday social interactions which children engage in. Conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis (Sacks, 1992a, 1992b) were employed to transcribe audio and video footage taken of thirteen, four-year-old children in their primary school playground in mid-Wales. The detailed and iterative analysis found that children employ specific resources to organise the social order of their playground. These resources include the use of name calling; access tools; possessive pronouns and collective proterms; reference to gender; physical gestures and the use of playground huts. The resources were used in the interaction of excluding or affiliating with peers, and also in the disaffiliation of peers where no further interaction was produced. These actions worked to produce different outcomes but were often used simultaneously in the co-construction of context. The wider findings which emanated from the detailed analysis identified the issues of sequences in children's establishment of social order; the context free and context sensitive nature of affiliation, disaffiliation and exclusion; issues of power; verbal actions supported by physical gestures; children's use of their environment; exclusive dyads; and children's social competence. The thesis holds implications for practice where practitioners can acknowledge the complex, multidimensional aspects of children's social organisation processes in order to avoid stereotyping. This study extends research which uses conversation and membership categorization analysis in the area of childhood studies which is important as this methodology affords unique access into children's worlds.

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade de Educação, Programa de Pós-Graduação, 2013. / Submitted by Tania Milca Carvalho Malheiros (tania@bce.unb.br) on 2013-04-17T12:04:16Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2013_TâniaLúcia Nunes Nascimento_Parcial.pdf: 4048387 bytes, checksum: e6e5c0eea731c5158cf585d2bbed8362 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Jaqueline Ferreira de Souza(jaquefs.braz@gmail.com) on 2013-04-24T13:52:03Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2013_TâniaLúcia Nunes Nascimento_Parcial.pdf: 4048387 bytes, checksum: e6e5c0eea731c5158cf585d2bbed8362 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-04-24T13:52:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2013_TâniaLúcia Nunes Nascimento_Parcial.pdf: 4048387 bytes, checksum: e6e5c0eea731c5158cf585d2bbed8362 (MD5) / Nos últimos anos, o bullying tem sido objeto de estudo em todo o mundo por muitos pesquisadores preocupados com a extensão de sua propagação rápida e abrangente. De forma velada de violência entre os muros da escola para as muitas exposições na rede global da Internet, esse tipo de violência tem sido identificado como uma causa de mortes afetando cada vez mais jovens de todo o mundo. Com o objetivo de investigar a percepção de estudantes do ensino médio a respeito do bullying, utilizando vídeos como suporte para reflexão, reavaliação e elaboração, buscando possibilidades de mediações socioculturais decorrentes desta experiência, esta pesquisa se pautou nas visões de cento e quarenta e dois jovens matriculados em uma escola pública no Distrito Federal, Brasil, que, com respostas extraídas de suas realidades socioeducacionais, expuseram uma vivência real deste tipo de violência, suas percepções e suas ponderações, expressando-se em ideias e conceitos próprios de quem se percebe inserido em um ambiente frágil, porém portando expressões e conscientização inconformistas e renovadoras. ______________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT / In the last years, bullying has been the subject of study throughout the world by many researchers concerned about the extent of its quickly and comprehensively spreading. From the veiled form of violence among the school walls to the many exposures in the global Internet network, such kind of violence has been identified as a cause of fatalities increasingly affecting young people around the world. Aiming to investigate the perception of high school students about bullying, with the support of videos as a way of reflection, reassessment and development, and also seeking mediation opportunities from this social and cultural experience, this research is guided by the viewpoint of a hundred and forty-two young students enrolled in a public school in Distrito Federal, Brazil. Their answers, drawn from their social and educational realities, exposed a close experience of such violence, as their perceptions and thoughts, expressed in ideas and concepts of whom, despite the insertion in a fragile environment, can carry expressions of nonconformist and renovating awareness.

Magíster en Psicología, mención Psicología Clínica Infanto Juvenil / En la presente investigación, se pretende dilucidar, desde el discurso de los propios estudiantes, la construcción de significados en torno al fenómeno del hostigamiento entre pares en el ámbito escolar, enfatizando las influencias de los diversos sistemas en los que están inmersos, además de conocer las convergencias y divergencias de estas construcciones entre escolares de distinto nivel socioeconómico y género. El interés por el hostigamiento escolar, radica en los efectos que este fenómeno tiene no sólo en los individuos, sino que en sus contextos tanto mediatos como inmediatos, y en la sociedad en general. Para dicho fin, se utiliza una metodología cualtitativa, basada en los lineamientos de la Teoría Fundamentada en el análisis de datos, los cuales son producidos a través de entrevistas grupales. Los resultados arrojan contenidos explícitos respecto de la significación realizada por los estudiantes en torno a los malos tratos y en forma específica del hostigamiento y la influencia de los contextos en su génesis. Además, se evidencian elementos implícitos en el discurso que dan cuenta de influencias sociales, a las cuales los escolares no acceden conscientemente. Estos hallazgos se discuten a la luz de los procesos cognitivos en el acto de significación y sus implicancias como método de intervención

Studies show that teachers lack training and confidence when it comes to intervening effectively in bullying situations. The goal of this study is to respond to the appeals of pre-service teachers for more formal training on bullying, including prevention and intervention strategies. A two-hour PREVNet workshop that provides information on bullying, bullying prevention and bullying intervention is offered in four Canadian Teacher Education classes. Two unique questionnaires, each consisting of simulated bullying incidents in a school context and a set of teacher interventions, were developed, piloted with a group of experienced teachers, and used to assess the effect of the workshop on teachers’ reported interventions in bullying situations. The results of a series of repeated measures ANOVAs reveal a marginally significant effect of the workshop on pre-service teachers’ reported interventions (N = 66), with the greatest improvements revealed in participants’ responses to children who bully.

Researchers have consistently shown that as a society, we have failed to protect a large number of Aboriginal children and youths from violence and aggression across multiple contexts. Aboriginal children and youth are at a disproportionate risk of being involved in violent victimization ranging from homicides, family violence, and physical and sexual abuse compared to the rest of Canadian children and youth. However, the extent to which Aboriginal children and youths are involved in bullying remain largely unknown. In the present study, data from a Canadian population-based study was used to examine ethnic and sex differences in children’s and youths’ involvement of different forms of bullying (general, physical, verbal, social). Participants were categorized into three broad ethnic groups: Aboriginal, Caucasian, and ethnic minority. Results indicated that across the forms of bullying, Aboriginal children and youths were more frequently involved than their non Aboriginal peers. Sex differences also emerged, such that, Aboriginal boys were more frequently physically victimized than their non Aboriginal, same sex peers while no ethnic group differences were found for girls. The results highlight the need for an Aboriginal-specific bullying policy and specialized programs and services at school to support this vulnerable group of Canadian school-aged children.