The aim and overall purpose of this study was to investigate how common physical bullying (perpetration and victimization) was, in the perception of 221 upper secondary school students between the ages of 16 and 20 years old in the middle parts of Sweden, and how they interpreted the resources and safety available within the school environment. The study was quantitative with a cross-sectional research design, and the data was obtained via a questionnaire that the authors made specifically for this study. The data was analysed with the chi-square test to find possible statistical significance. The results indicated that almost one out of five of the students participating in this study had perpetrated at least one violent act against another student, and that one out of five students had been victimized of at least one violent act by another student. The routine activity theory, Moffitt's developmental theory and the lifestyle theory was used to get a better understanding of why physical bullying occurred, why some students chose to use physical violence against other students, and why some students were being victimized of physical bullying in the school environment. More research is needed in physical bullying, and bullying in general as well, among school students in Sweden. / <p>2017-06-01</p>

The purposes of this study were to investigate the evolution of the school climate during the first year of a new principal's assignment to the school as perceived by the principal and the teachers; and to investigate the relationship between the school climate and the leadership behavior of the principal as perceived by the principal and the teachers. In addition, an investigation was made of the relationship between the teachers' perception of the principal's leadership behavior and the self-evaluated leadership behavior of the principal.

This qualitative study identified school environment practices in designated school districts in a selected region in the state of Texas based on an accreditation visit from the Texas Education Agency (TEA) in the school year 1988-1989 and identified specific elements of positive school environment that were valued by the TEA.

This thesis is a series of meditations, stories and poetry focusing on living in classrooms with children, and on the meaning and place of education and schools in our lives. This writing is the emergent result of a commitment to the seeking of a generous language to understand and describe the work of teachers in schools, to the hope for human(e) and compassionate spaces for children to spend their days, to living with openness and creativity, to the having of challenging and wonderful conversations about life with children, and to the freedom to raise questions about the ways children and teachers (might) live together in schools. This writing is a story emerging at the point of intersection between what we might learn from children if we listen to them and remember them, and reflections on readings in ethics, education and literature. / Education, Faculty of / Language and Literacy Education (LLED), Department of / Graduate

The paper reports progress in the Millville Elementary School, Panama City, Florida, in the three year period from July 1, 1949 to July 1, 1952. During this time the faculty attempted to secure information relative to the situation, discover their most significant problems, develop a common point of view, and set about, with the help of all concerned to build a better program. In this effort, the Evaluative Criteria for Elementary Schools served as a general guide. Consultative help from Florida State University was available to the faculty during the entire period. In taking stock of the situation, the types of problems discovered might well be discussed under four categories: (1) the situation from the viewpoint of the pupils; (2) the situation from the viewpoint of the faculty; (3) the situation from the viewpoint of the community; and, (4) the situation as reflected by the general conditions of the building. / Typescript. / "August, 1952." / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts." / Advisor: W. Edwards, Professor Directing Paper. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 62-63).

"Several years ago the faculty of Allie Yniestra Elementary School of Pensacola, Florida, under the leadership of a progressive, professional principal, agreed to place the children into the various rooms of each grade according to their reading ability, the basis of judgment being the scores of the Stanford Achievement Tests given to the children during May of the previous year. Two years later, after much discussion and study, the school returned to its former method of grouping, which was simply dividing the names of the boys and girls among the various teachers of each grade. Test scores of the sixth grade children during two years of each method of grouping were carefully retained and compared. It is as a member of Yniestra faculty, and in the light of those scores, that this study of grouping was undertaken. It is the purpose of this paper to investigate the origin and need of grouping, to examine critically the different methods, and to analyze their possible effect on the objectives and functions of the elementary school of today"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "August, 1950." / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts under Plan II." / Advisor: Mildred Swearingen, Professor Directing Paper. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 30-31).

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This exploratory study considered the possible impact that organizational climate, content area, adult development group, career stage, and conceptual level did have on the implementation of an innovation by junior high school teachers in an urban school system. Formal instrumentation consisted of the Organizational Climate Index (OCI) (Stern, Steinkoff & Richman, 1975) and the Paragraph Completion Method (PCM) for assessing conceptual levels (Hunt, Greenwood, Noy & Watson, 1973). Parameters developed by Sheehy (1976) and Levinson (1979) were used to determine adult development groups; career stages were determine by indicators set by Yarger and Mertens (1979). An approved questionnaire based on the system's model was used to determine the extent of implementation. Reliability coefficients of .79 and better were established for interrater agreement and implementation scores (student and teacher report). A stepwise regression analysis was conducted using the implementation scores and percentage scores for specific tasks as the dependent variables. The broad categories of climate and conceptual level did not impact significantly. However, subscales such as organizational effectiveness, coping with uncertainty, accepting orders, as well as adult development group and career stage were significant at the .01 level. / Ed. D.

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