Adolescent dating violence is commonly experienced by adolescents and is associated with a variety of negative outcomes. Stress and coping and social learning theories suggest that dating violence victimization may predict increased substance use and dating violence perpetration. However, few studies have assessed these relations over time, and existing studies have not assessed physical and psychological dating violence victimization separately nor focused on early adolescent populations. The current study addressed these gaps by examining longitudinal relations between physical and psychological dating violence victimization and substance use and physical and psychological dating violence perpetration among early adolescents. The extent to which gender and class norms for dating violence moderated these relations was also examined. Participants included two cohorts of sixth grade students who reported being involved in a dating relationship at Waves 1 and 2 (N = 2,022; 43% female; 52% African American, 21% Latino/a, 20% European American, and 7% other). Analyses utilized a multilevel approach whereby students were represented at Level 1 and classes (scores for students in the same cohort and school; n = 74) at Level 2. Models tested direct effects from Wave 1 psychological and physical victimization to Wave 2 outcomes and the extent to which gender moderated this effect. Models including psychological and physical perpetration also tested cross-level interactions between Level 1 dating violence victimization and Level 2 class norms for dating violence. Key findings indicated that gender moderated relations between physical and psychological victimization and psychological perpetration. High levels of psychological victimization predicted greater change in psychological perpetration for girls as compared to boys and high levels of physical victimization predicted greater change in psychological perpetration for boys as compared to girls. Additionally, physical and psychological victimization significantly predicted changes in substance use. High levels of physical victimization predicted greater change in substance use, whereas high levels of psychological victimization predicted less change in substance use. These findings highlight the need to address dating violence early in middle school, so as to prevent negative outcomes associated with victimization by a dating partner.

Despite theoretical support for the role of the family in providing a foundation to protect youth against risks for aggression, there is little published literature examining a protective influence. This study examined family functioning and perceived parental messages about fighting and nonviolence as moderators of the relation between risk factors and adolescent aggression. The specific risk factors included affiliating with a delinquent group of peers, attending a school with norms that support aggression, and witnessing violence within the community. Secondary analyses were conducted on data collected from a high-risk sample of 537 adolescents in 2 cohorts from 18 schools. Adolescents completed measures of peer delinquent behavior and community violence exposure at the beginning and end of the sixth grade and at the end of the following two school years. An aggregated school-level measure of norms supporting aggression was constructed from a random sample of students in each cohort and school. Family variables included adolescent reports of parental messages supporting fighting and nonviolence, and family functioning classes created through a latent profile analysis of adolescent and parent reports of family cohesion, family problem-solving, parental involvement, and positive parenting. Aggression was assessed by a composite of ratings from parents, teachers, and adolescents. Longitudinal analyses indicated that delinquent peer associations and witnessing violence were each related to changes in aggression over time. School norms supporting aggression was not significantly related to aggression. Parental messages supporting nonviolence and not supporting fighting, and good family functioning at the start of the sixth grade were each related to lower subsequent levels of aggression. Few protective effects of family processes were found. High family functioning reduced the risk associated with delinquent peer associations. Lower levels of parental support for fighting buffered the risk associated with witnessing violence, but not at higher levels of witnessing violence. Thus, whereas a foundation of positive parental messages and good family functioning was associated with lower aggression overall, these family factors generally did not serve to protect adolescents that experienced higher levels of risk. These findings suggest a need for further study of protective factors for adolescents in the face of peer, school, and community risk.

Individer med erfarenheter av skolavhopp tenderar att i bland annat forskning och medier buntas ihop och kategoriseras som en homogen grupp med liknande bakomliggande orsaker till avhoppen. Dessa individer benämns inom forskning som dropouts och kan av samhället betraktas som en problematisk grupp på arbetsmarknaden. Studiens syfte är att öka förståelsen för hur nio unga vuxna resonerar kring det egna skolavhoppet. Detta i relation till hur normer och förväntningar kan påverka hur skolelever upplever att de blivit bemötta av vuxna i deras omgivning. Studiens frågeställningar är enligt följande: Hur talar föreliggande studies intervjupersoner om bemötande från lärare, skolpersonal och övriga vuxna under uppväxten? Hur kan intervjupersonernas handlande förstås i relation till normer och förväntningar de tycks ha förhållit sig till under uppväxten? Kvalitativ metod har tillämpats där intervjuer gjorts med nio individer som har erfarenheter av avbruten grundskole- eller gymnasieutbildning. Resultatet har analyserats med stöd av teorier vilka fokuserar kring normers och förväntningars betydelse för individers handlingsutrymme. Centrala teoretiska begrepp som tillämpats i föreliggande rapport är: Upplevd självförmåga, förväntningar, förebilder, uppmuntran, handlande, normer, exkludering. Slutsatser som redovisas påvisar att individer som har erfarenhet av avhopp sannolikt har unika och individuella bakomliggande orsaker till avhoppet. De avhopp som beskrivs kan betraktas som utdragna processer där eleverna inte har givits det stöd de tycks ha behövt. Resultatet visar även att relationsbyggande mellan skolpersonal och elever kan vara väsentligt eller avgörande för att skolpersonal ska förmå identifiera elevers behov av känslomässigt och pedagogiskt stöd. / Individuals who have experienced school dropout are often spoken of as a social and/or economic issue. Through social sciences as well as in media, they are sometimes seen as a homogeneous group with the same underlying causes for dropping out of school. The purpose of this study is to gain increased understanding of nine young adults’ reasoning about their school dropout experiences. This aim is based on how norms and expectations can effect how the students perceive the treatment received by grownups around them in their childhood and adolescence. The question formulations through this study are as follows: How do this study’s interviewed individuals speak about their connections to school employees and other grownups in their adolescence? How can the interviewed individuals’ actions be understood in relation to norms and expectations by which they have seemed to relate during their upbringing? Narrative method has been practiced, where nine individuals who have all experienced dropping out of elementary and/or upper secondary school have been interviewed. The result has been analyzed based on theories focused on norms’ and expectations’ impact on individuals’ capacity for action. Essential theoretical terminology that is used to further understand the analysis is the following: Self-efficacy, expected outcome, personal goals, role models, encouragement, actions, norms, exclusion. Conclusions of this study indicate that individuals who have experienced dropping out of primary and/or upper secondary school are likely to have different experiences and reasons for dropping out. The conclusions also implicates that norms and expectations do play a substantial role for individuals and tend to contribute to different rates of categorization and exclusion. The individual life stories regarding so called school dropouts that have been described in this study do seem to have been prolonged processes, where students have not received sufficient support. The results also stresses that the bonding between school employees and students is crucial for the ability to identify the individual need for emotional and educational support in time.

L'agir professoral fait l'objet de recherches approfondies en didactiques des langues et des cultures. Si la multimodalité est considérée comme un élément définitoire de cette notion, peu d'études se sont penchées en détail sur la compréhension de cet aspect de l'action enseignante.Notre travail, mené dans une approche ethnographique, vise à analyser la pratique multimodale de deux enseignantes. Chacune intervient dans deux contextes pédagogiques : en cours de français langue première (FL1) et auprès de collégiens allophones apprenant le français langue seconde (FLS). Cela nous offre l'occasion d'étudier l'effet du contexte d'enseignement sur les actions professorales, en particulier celles mises en œuvre dans la construction de normes scolaires (linguistique et interactionnelle). Ce travail vise également à analyser le style professoral de ces enseignantes pour mettre au jour les invariants pédagogiques, d'un contexte à l'autre, dans la gestion de ces normes.Cette recherche s'appuie essentiellement sur l'observation et l'analyse de deux types de corpus : des films de classe, transcrits et annotés à l'aide du logiciel ELAN, et trois différents formats de corpus vidéoscopiques (autoscopie, hétéroscopie et autohétéroscopie).Les procédés de normalisation linguistique et interactionnelle sont appréhendés en croisant une analyse quantitative des productions verbales et gestuelles et une analyse qualitative, qui emprunte des outils à la linguistique énonciative, à l'analyse des discours et à l'analyse conversationnelle, ou encore à la microsociologie. / A considerable body of research has shown interest to teacher action. Though the nonverbal dimension of these actions is acknowledged, few studies have considered it thoroughly in their analysis. Hence, following an ethnographic approach, our work analyzes the verbal and nonverbal actions of two secondary school teachers. Each one teaches both French as an L1 to native speakers and French as a schooling language to non native speakers. This work attempts to assess the effect of the teaching contexts on the teachers' actions, and more specifically on the way they co-Construct school norms (language and interaction norms). It also aims at highlighting the normalizing process invariants from one teaching context to the next.This work relies on the observation and analysis of two types of corpora: video recorded class interaction, transcribed with ELAN, and three different types of videoed confrontations: the teacher's self-Confrontation, students' observation and comments of videoed interactions of their class, and the teacher's confrontation of her students' videoed reflections.We analyzed the norm construction strategies using both a quantitative and a qualitative approach of the verbal and nonverbal productions. We borrowed tools from various fields: enunciative linguistics, discourse analysis, conversation analysis, and micro-Sociology.

Dans un contexte social et scolaire qui se veut inclusif, nombre de facteurs font entrave à un processus de scolarisation de qualité pour les enfants en situation de handicap dans les écoles ordinaires du Liban. Les représentations sociales et les pratiques à l’égard de ces enfants en sont les signes les plus saillants. Cette thèse interroge les représentations que se font lesenseignants des enfants en situation de handicap et leurs pratiques pédagogiques effectives, afin de comprendre les interactions entre les premières et les secondes ainsi que leur impact sur la réussite de la scolarisation. Elle vise simultanément à saisir la position de l’École libanaise face à la diversité des enfants.Cette recherche relève d’une démarche compréhensive. Elle repose sur l’observation des pratiques éducatives et pédagogiques ainsi que sur des focus groups et des entretiens compréhensifs avec les enseignants. Le recours à ces méthodologies permet, d’une part, d’appréhender les conduites des enseignants et leurs démarches pédagogiques ; d’autre part, d’analyser leurs discours et d’explorer les représentations sociales qui structurent inconsciemment leurs manières de penser et d’agir. Par l’analyse et le croisement des données recueillies, les freins et les leviers à la mise en œuvre du processus de scolarisation se trouvent ainsi mis en lumière.L’interprétation croisée des pratiques et des représentations permet finalement de comprendre ce qui pourrait amener les enseignants à modifier leurs conceptions, à transformer leurs pratiques usuelles et à envisager la possibilité d’en instaurer de nouvelles, plus cohérentes avec la visée inclusive. / In a social and school context that seeks to be inclusive, many factors hinder a quality schooling process for children with disabilities in mainstream schools in Lebanon. Social representations and practices with regard to these children are the most remarkable signs. This thesis investigates the representations made by teachers of children with disabilities and their actualpedagogical practices, in order to understand the interactions between both parties as well as the teachers’ impact on the success of schooling. It also seeks to reflect the position of the Lebanese School on the diversity of children.This research adopts a comprehensive approach. It is based on the observation of educational and pedagogical practices as well as focus groups and comprehensive interviews with teachers. The use of these methodologies allows, on the one hand, the apprehension of the behavior of teachers and their pedagogical approaches; and on the other hand, the analysis of theirdiscourses and exploration of the social representations that unconsciously structure their ways of thinking and acting. The cross-sectional analysis of data thus highlights the brakes and levers for the implementation of the schooling process.The crossed interpretation of practices and representations finally makes it possible to understand what could lead teachers to modify their conceptions, to transform their usual practices and to consider the possibility developing new ones, more coherent with the inclusive aim.