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Citizenship Competencies in the Midst of a Violent Political Conflict: The Colombian Educational Response
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Chaux as discussed by the authors examined the effect that an environment replete with violent political conflict has on children and examined the case of Colombia and an educational initiative that attempted to foster stronger citizenship competencies among its students.Abstract:
In this article, Enrique Chaux considers the effect that an environment replete with violent political conflict has on children. He cites literature that points to higher levels of aggressive and violent behaviors among children in these settings. Then he examines the case of Colombia and an educational initiative that attempted to foster stronger citizenship competencies among its students. The program, Aulas en Paz, experienced success in lowering aggressive behaviors in students and increasing citizenship competencies among its participants.read more
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Learning About Relationships
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors synthesize existing research on the stage-salient developmental relationship tasks of early and middle childhood, focusing on the context of school and on the relationships amongst children, parents and teachers.
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The crisis of student misbehavior in zimbabwean public schools: teachers' perceptions on impact of macro socio- economic challenges
TL;DR: The authors investigated teachers' perceptions of the influence of socioeconomic factors on student misbehavior and concluded that socioeconomic factors should be taken into consideration when formulating strategies to deal with student misbehaviour.
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‘It’s about Finding a Way’: Children, Sites of Opportunity, and Building Everyday Peace in Colombia
TL;DR: This article explored how young people themselves understand the roles of the local school and ngo in their personal conceptualisations of the violence in their everyday lives and found that children use spaces available to them opportunistically and that these actions can and should be read as contributing to local, everyday forms of peacebuilding.
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Social movement oriented citizenship in Colombia: The effects of curriculum, pedagogy and extra-curricular activities on student orientation
TL;DR: Social movement oriented citizenship (SMOC) as mentioned in this paper centers on peaceful protest, proactive community involvement and participation in activities to support human rights and environmental protection, and is based on the concept of social movement orientation.
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Representations of violence in social science textbooks: rethinking opportunities for peacebuilding in the Colombian and South African post-conflict scenarios
TL;DR: In this article, the role of curriculum and textbooks as potential peacebuilding devices is analyzed in Colombia and South Africa, where the authors find that the textbooks become intermediaries of structurally violent regimes, reinforcing the processes and systems that maintain such arrangements.
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Empathy and Moral Development: Implications for Caring and Justice
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an overview of the development of empathic distress, anger, sympathy, guilt, feeling of injustice, and moral internalization from discipline to internalization.
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The cycle of violence
TL;DR: Findings from a cohort study show that being abused or neglected as a child increases one's risk for delinquency, adult criminal behavior, and violent criminal behavior; however, the majority of abused and neglected children do not become delinquent, criminal, or violent.
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When interventions harm: Peer groups and problem behavior.
TL;DR: Development and intervention evidence relevant to iatrogenic effects in peer-group interventions are explored and it is proposed that peer aggregation during early adolescence, under some circumstances, inadvertently reinforces problem behavior.
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Bullying as a group process: Participant roles and their relations to social status within the group
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated bullying as a group process, asocial phenomenon taking place in a school setting among 573 Finnish sixth-grade children (286 girls, 287 boys) aged 12-13 years.
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Mechanisms in the cycle of violence
TL;DR: Results from a prospective study of a representative sample of 309 children indicated that physical abuse is indeed a risk factor for later aggressive behavior even when the other ecological and biological factors are known.