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141	Stasi Brainwashing in the GDR 1957 - 1990 Solbrig, Jacob H., Solbrig, Jacob Hagen 20 December 2017 (has links) This thesis examines the methods used by the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS), more commonly known as the Stasi, or East German secret police, for extraction of information from citizens of the German Democratic Republic for the purpose of espionage and covert operations inside East Germany, as it pertains to the deliberate brainwashing of East German citizens. As one of the most efficient intelligence agencies to ever exist, the Stasi’s main purpose was to monitor the population, gather intelligence, and collect or turn informants. They used brainwashing techniques to control the people of the GDR, keeping the populace paralyzed with fear and paranoia. By surrounding themselves with a network of informants they prevented actions against the dictatorial communist regime. Using the video testimonies of former prisoners, and former confidential informants who worked closely with and collaborated with Stasi agents, in combination with periodicals and previous historical studies, this work argues that the East German Police State’s brainwashing techniques had long and lasting consequences both for German citizens, and for the psychiatric health of former GDR citizens. The scope and breadth of the techniques and data compiled for use by the Stasi were exhaustive, and the repercussions of their use are still being felt and discovered twenty five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. This study aims to show the lasting effects brainwashing had on former informants and the Stasi’s victims. Stasi brainwashing cold war spy kgb psychological Applied Ethics Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms Bioethics and Medical Ethics Continental Philosophy Cultural History Eastern European Studies Ethics and Political Philosophy European History European Languages and Societies Experimental Analysis of Behavior Intellectual History Modern Literature Multicultural Psychology Oral History Other German Language and Literature Other Languages, Societies, and Cultures Other Political Science Philosophy of Mind Political History Politics and Social Change Psychiatry Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Psychological Phenomena and Processes Social and Cultural Anthropology Social History Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies Theory and Criticism Theory and Philosophy
142	K-5 Elementary Alternative Program: A Case Study Scheuer, William E, IV 01 December 2022 (has links) The purpose of this case study was to examine how the K-5 elementary alternative program All Students Can Thrive (ASCT) used student-centered learning practices to influence the whole child. There is a lack of research on K-5 elementary alternative programs, such as ASCT, and specifically those that integrate student-centered learning practices to influence the whole child. Literature does not contain universally accepted interventions that are effective in the elementary alternative setting to help students return to the mainstream classroom setting better prepared to display appropriate behaviors when a student is removed from a mainstream classroom setting due to disruptive behaviors. The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) has determined five major tenets that measure how educators influence the whole child and those are: healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged (ASCD, 2022). These five tenets will serve as the theoretical framework for this research on the whole child and ASCD will function as the scientific authority on the whole child for the purposes this case study. Data collection strategies included interviews, field notes, and a document review. Analysis of data occurred in three phases: (a) coding themes from participant responses during interviews (b) analysis of interview field notes (c) document review. The analysis of the case study data was based on the theoretical proposition that educating the whole child involves children being healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged (ASCD, 2022). The credibility of the analysis was protected by triangulation of data through the coding of interviews, interview field notes, and a document review. The results revealed that that all five tenets of the whole child were identified as a common theme or sub-theme from participant responses. Five common themes: (1) Engaged (2) Space to Thrive/Choices (3) Identify Needs/Skills (4) Confidence/Hope (5) Relationship and five sub-themes emerged from the analysis of data: (1) Challenged (2) Supported (3) Safe (4) Healthy (5) Communication. alternative education whole child student-centered learning trauma relationships Appalachian Studies Applied Behavior Analysis Applied Ethics Child Psychology Community-Based Learning Counselor Education Curriculum and Instruction Developmental Psychology Development Studies Disability Studies Early Childhood Education Educational Leadership Educational Methods Educational Psychology Elementary Education and Teaching Experimental Analysis of Behavior Health Psychology Leadership Studies Multicultural Psychology Other American Studies Other Education Other Languages, Societies, and Cultures Other Psychology School Psychology Social Psychology Social Psychology and Interaction Special Education Administration Special Education and Teaching Theory and Philosophy Urban Education

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Stasi Brainwashing in the GDR 1957 - 1990

K-5 Elementary Alternative Program: A Case Study