Thesis (M.A.)--Naval Postgraduate School, 2008. / Description based on title page of source document ( viewed on April 23, 2008). Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-139).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2006. / Title from PDF title page screen. Advisor: Craig S. Cashwell; submitted to the School of Education. Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-165).

School-Based Violence (SBV) is prevalent in South Africa and globally. SBV is one of the challenges that the South African education system is facing resulting in a new deep-rooted culture of unsafe and insecure schools. Teachers are expected to teach learners, who display antisocial behaviour. These learners swear, back chat, verbally and physically abuse and show total disrespect for teachers. The presence of such learners has turned schools into battle field. This violence is not exclusively directed to teachers, but learners are also the common victims of bullying in particular. This study therefore sought to investigate how intergroup violence impacts on the schoolbased violence. The concepts, Intergroup Conflict (IC) and gangs/gangsterism were used interchangeably to describe actions of individuals who take part in the social conflict, driven by competition, antagonism and aggression within the school context. A qualitative research method was used to capture the experiences and narratives of participants affected by school based violence. The study employed the interpretivist research paradigm the phenomenological research approach was preferred for the study to gain the meaning, structure, and essence of the lived experiences of the participants with regard to SBV. To extract participants’ experiences, perceptions and views, the study used a semi-structured interview, focus group interviews and nonparticipatory observation methods. The selected schools were purposefully selected because of historical and ongoing violent incidents, as well as the violent communities in which these schools are located. The researcher complied with and observed ethical principles during the research study. The research was conducted on sites (schools) and included seven learners, seven teachers, three principals, three parents who are members of the School Governing Body, three parents, as well as a District Official. Permission was sought and granted by the Provincial Education Department – Gauteng Province, as well as by the District Director.

Crisis intervention is a responsibility of school counselors. Specific training in crisis intervention skills is recommended for performing adequately in crisis situations, however, no generally accepted standards exist for training school counselors in crisis intervention. This exploratory study was conducted entirely online. Participants in the study were recruited via email and listservs and accessed a website to complete a survey. State certified school counselors (n=517) from across the United States (response rate 47%) participated. The following research questions were investigated: (1) Do these school counselors have training in situational crisis intervention skills? (2) What is the format and source of this training? (3) What situational crises have these counselors faced in their work? (4) Do these counselors feel adequately prepared for crisis situations? (5) Do these counselors differ in their preparedness according to demographic variables? (6) What additional training regarding crisis intervention do these counselors believe they need? Results indicate the majority of participants have had training in crisis intervention. Significant differences in level of training were found based on years of experience, age group, and ethnic group. The most frequently cited training topics previously received by respondents are stages of grief, suicide prevention and intervention, and assessment and referral. The most frequently encountered crisis situations are suicide ideation, child physical abuse, child sexual abuse, and suicide gesture. The average percentage of time spent by respondents on crisis intervention is 17%. Over 50% of respondents report being adequately prepared as the result of training for crises related to suicide, violence, accidents, and alcohol/drugs. Forty-six percent report being adequately prepared for crises involving disaster. For each of the five categories of crisis (suicide, violence, accidents, alcohol/drugs, disaster), respondents with 1-5 years of experience report lower perceptions of preparedness as the result of training than the other groups. Elementary counselors report lower levels of preparedness for suicide and alcohol/drug related crises. High school counselors report lower levels of preparedness for disaster. Eighty-nine percent of respondents wish to have additional training in crisis intervention. The most desired training topics are responding to violence, psychological first aid, crisis simulations, Critical Incident Stress Debriefing, and legal/ethical issues in crisis intervention. / Ph. D.

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Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2017-07-27T15:27:59Z No. of bitstreams: 1 marianarochafontes.pdf: 824786 bytes, checksum: c02ca013494303f109905d43cd84498b (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2017-08-09T13:53:20Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 marianarochafontes.pdf: 824786 bytes, checksum: c02ca013494303f109905d43cd84498b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-09T13:53:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 marianarochafontes.pdf: 824786 bytes, checksum: c02ca013494303f109905d43cd84498b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-09-03 / Este trabalho dissertativo vincula-se ao macroprojeto “Práticas de Oralidade e Cidadania” (MIRANDA, 2007, 2009, 2011 - FAPEMIG e PNPD/CAPES), dentro da linha de Pesquisa Linguística e Ensino de Línguas (PPGLinguística -UFJF), integrando- se, ainda, ao GP FrameNet Brasil (CNPq), em sua linha Frames e Cidadania. O macroprojeto, de natureza híbrida – linguística e educacional – ambiciona investigar a crise das práticas linguísticas e interacionais no ambiente escolar. A rede de pesquisa envolve dissertações e tese. Neste trabalho dissertativo, tomou-se como cenário investigativo uma escola pública da cidade de Muriaé – MG, reconhecida por gestores e professores como “caótica”. Toma-se o discurso e, portanto, a perspectiva discente sobre o ambiente escolar como objeto de estudo e busca-se investigar o modo como as crianças (164 alunos dos primeiros anos do ensino fundamental) conceptualizam e vivenciam a normatividade neste espaço. O corpus analisado foi constituído a partir das respostas a três questões: 1) Para você, o que é uma regra?; 2) Existem regras na sua escola? Cite, pelo menos, três. e 3) Que regras você acha que sua escola deveria ter?. Esta dissertação configura-se como um estudo de caso com metodologia mista – qualitativa e quantitativa. A análise parte do ponto de vista linguístico, ancorado na Linguística Cognitiva (LAKOFF, 1987; LAKOFF e JOHNSON, 1999; FILLMORE, 1982; SALOMÃO, 1999, 2009; FAUCONNIER e TURNER, 2002; CROFT e CRUSE, 2004) e, mais especificamente, na Semântica de Frames (FILLMORE, 1968, 1977, 1982, 2003) e em sua aplicação no projeto lexicográfico computacional FrameNet (https://framenet.icsi.berkeley.edu). A categoria teórico-analítica central é, pois, o frame, a partir da qual se instaura o exercício hermenêutico multidisciplinar sobre as vivências discentes. Contribuições das Ciências Sociais (BAUMAN, 1998, 2001, 2005; FRIDMAN, 2000 e GIDDENS, 2006) e da Linguística Aplicada (RAJAGOPALAN, 2006; FABRÍCIO, 2006; LOPES, 2008) permitem traçar o panorama da crise de valores da sociedade contemporânea, que se reflete na escola. Discussões traçadas no âmbito educacional (NUCCI, 2000; MENIN 2002; MIRANDA, 2005; GOERGEN, 2007; TOGNETTA e VINHA, 2008) e da Psicologia moral (PIAGET, 1994; KOHLBERG, 1969, 1981; LA´TAILLE, 2006) fornecem subsídios à interpretação dos dados. A pesquisa apresenta resultados que contribuem para a apresentação de um mapa da indisciplina escolar e da crise de valores que acomete a escola atual. A rede de frames desvelada tem como cena mais recorrente Encontro_Hostil, 25,4% dos conteúdos das regras escolares e 27,3% das regras ideais. As análises revelam, ainda, que a concepção discente de regra (127 respostas), representada pelos frames Norma_Obediência e Norma_Comando, envolve uma relação de coação entre os participantes (Comandante e Comandado), sem quaisquer menções a relações de cooperação, próprias de ambientes democráticos. O cenário autocrático vivenciado na escola contribui para que os alunos permaneçam na fase de heteronomia de desenvolvimento. As contribuições desta pesquisa em relação à crise implicam a atuação pedagógica em prol de uma Educação de Valores, ancorada em pactos sociais, em consensos resultantes de uma prática reflexiva entre todos os atores da comunidade escolar. / This work is linked to the macro project "Orality and Citizenship Practices" (FAPEMIG - APQ-02405-09), enrolled in the Linguistics Research line and Language Teaching from PPG Linguistics – UFJF. The project's overall objective is to investigate the crisis of linguistic and interactional practices in the school environment and it involves dissertative and thesis subprojects. The case study is a public school in Muriaé – MG, recognized by directors and teachers as a “chaos”. Taking into account student´s perspective about the school environment as an object. The scope of investigation is to analyze how children (164 students from the first year of school basic education), as how they conceive and act the normativity in this place. The data analyzed was constructed from the answers of three different questions: 1) What is a rule to you? 2) Are there rules in your school? Say at least three, 3) What kind of rules do you consider your school should have? This study is conceived as a Case Study and it applies mixed procedures – quantitative and qualitative. The analysis starts from the linguistics point of view based on Cognitive Linguistics (LAKOFF, 1987; LAKOFF e JOHNSON, 1999; FILLMORE, 1982; SALOMÃO, 1999, 2009; FAUCONNIER e TURNER, 2002; CROFT e CRUSE, 2004) and, more specifically, in Frames Semantics (FILLMORE, 1968, 1977, 1982, 2003) and in its application in the project of lexical annotation FrameNet (www.framenet.icsi.berkeley.edu). The main theorical analitic category is, then, a frame, from which is installed the hermeneutical multidisciplinary exercises about students everyday experiences. Contributions from Social Sciences (BAUMAN, 1998, 2001, 2005; FRIDMAN, 2000 e GIDDENS, 2006) and Applied Linguistics (RAJAGOPALAN, 2006; FABRÍCIO, 2006; LOPES, 2008) allow us to draw the crisis values scene of the contemporary society which refletcs itself in school. Discussions in the Educational Site (NUCCI, 2000; MENIN, 2002; MIRANDA, 2005; GOERGEN, 2007; TOGNETTA e VINHA, 2008) and Moral Psychology (PIAGET, 1994; KOHLBERG, 1969, 1981; LA´TAILLE, 2006) provide content to the data interpretation. The research presents the results which support the presentation of a map of the School Indiscipline and of values crisis that happens in the current school. The uncovered web frames has its highlighted scenes, Hostile_Encounter, which represents 25,4% of the rules` content of school and 27,3% of ideal rules . The analysis reveals that the students conception of rule (127 answers) represented by the frames Rule_Obidience and Rule_Command involves a relation of coertion between the participants (Commander and Commanded) without any mention of participative cooperation, which are specific of democratic sites. The autocratic scenery perceived in school contributes in a way that students remain in the heteronomy phase of development. The contributions of this research related to the crisis imply pedagogical act with the aim of the Values Education, based on social pacts and agreements resulting from a reflexive practice between the actors of the school family.

School-age children are at high risk of experiencing traumatic and stressful events that can negatively impact their academic, emotional, and behavior performance (Brock et al., 2016). Any stressful situation (i.e., natural disaster) or adverse childhood experience (ACE) can potentially become a traumatic event for a child or adolescent. The current literature indicates that 60% of children experience at least one ACE, putting them at high risk for a variety of health and social problems (Manyema et al., 2018). Natural disasters adversely impact children's life as they have the potential to destroy physical structures and injure the child or family members. According to Inoue and colleagues (2018) natural disasters can additionally be considered as an ACE. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between PTSD symptoms of students who have experienced a natural disaster (e.g., hurricane exposure) and students’ internalizing and externalizing behaviors. Participants included 75 students from elementary, middle, and high school in a school district in the Southeastern United States. Linear regression showed that PTSD symptoms are significantly correlated with internalizing and externalizing behaviors. However, moderation and interaction effects showed that he type of hurricane exposure did not significantly moderate the relationship between PTSD symptoms and students' internalizing and externalizing behaviors. Implications from these results suggest that trauma-informed strategies are needed for students that are exposed to a traumatic event.

This study examines the political career of Maurice Edwin "Moon" Landrieu from his election to the Louisiana legislature in 1960 to the end of his first term as mayor of New Orleans in 1974. Landrieu was a white southern liberal who vigorously supported the agenda of the civil rights movement. He succeeded in building an unprecedented coalition between liberal, middle-class whites and a large segment of the black community. As the 1970s unfolded, however, he found his coalition increasingly threatened not just by disgruntled white conservatives, which might be expected, but also by angry black radicals of the Black Panther Party. This study argues that Landrieu's firm commitment to opening up political and economic opportunity to all citizens enabled him to keep his progressive, biracial coalition together and to help pave the way for the 1978 election of Ernest "Dutch" Morial, the first black mayor of New Orleans.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Mississippi State University. Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Special Education. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.