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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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Early Prevention of Aggression in Children in Developing Countries
TL;DR: This paper showed that violence is significantly more common in developing countries than in developed countries and that violence prevention programs must be effective and sustainable using the resources of these countries, and must be culturally accepted in them.
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The Civic Competence Gaps in Chile, Colombia and Mexico and the Factors that Account for the Civic Knowledge Gap
TL;DR: Researchers and educators interested in empowering young people with the citizen competencies they need to participate actively and constructively as members of their society have documented the existence of significant differences among youth from advantaged and disadvantaged SES backgrounds.
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Formar cidadãos desde a pré-escola
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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.