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Socialization

In five pages this paper examines socialization in an overview of peer groups, school, and family relationships. One source is ci...

Program to Prevent Violence in Schools

Childrens Defense Fund places gunfire as "the second-leading cause of death among Americans ages 10-19" (Anonymous, 1996, p. PG). ...

Teachers' Perspectives on School Violence

In 7 pages this paper discusses U.S. schools and dealing with growing violence with zero tolerance policies and peer counseling am...

Montessori and Vygotsky: current applications.

the main query as to how students learn, Vygotsky explored how students construct meaning (Jaramillo, 1996; p. 133). Vygots...

Adolescent Peer Pressure and Advertising

as beautiful, wild, or successful. Taken one step further, when a product is purchased by an adolescent who is perceived ...

Age Appropriate Sexual Behavior Perceptions

In five pages this paper discusses perceptions that are developed by age appropriateness regarding sexuality and considers what pa...

Peer Groups

and thus feels isolated and unwanted, the popular youth revels in the notoriety of being one of the "in" crowd. Incidents t...

Philip Zimbardo's Peer Pressure Theories

in Berzonsky, 1995 ). A dimension found which influences the impact of public self-expressions on self conceptions is firmness of ...

Two Child Development Cases

In seven pages this research paper analyzes the lack of theory that would provide greater understanding in cases involving peer an...

Contemporary Work Ethics, Managers, Employees, and Peers

In five pages this paper examines the workplace changes that have occurred in recent years and discusses the impact upon work ethi...

Literature Review on Teen Drug Abuse

In five pages this research paper examines various theories regarding teenage drug abuse in a consideration of peer pressure and o...

Alcohol on the College Campus

is apparent that raising the legal drinking age to 21 has not discouraged many young people from drinking alcohol. In a 1997 study...

Theories of Cultural Deviance

Juvenile delinquency is considered in twelve pages within the context of the Theory of Differential Association by Sutherland and ...

Dropouts Among Gifted and At Risk Students

In six pages it is argued that students who are gifted, at risk are more likely to quit school than their peers who are not gifted...

Overview of Peer Mediation

In twelve pages this paper considers peer mediation in a discussion of various aspects along with an interview of student program ...

How They Compare 'Ungraded' or 'Multi-Age' Classrooms

This paper consists of 10 pages and chronicles the evolution of school organization from the nineteenth century and continuing wit...

Elementary School Students Motivational Approaches

In twelve pages this paper discusses student intrinsic and extrinsic motivational techniques and theory and the roles played by pe...

School Impact on Children Who Have Epilepsy

In six pages this research paper considers how children with epilepsy are perceived in the academic environment with different sei...

Analyzing the Painting Rembrandt Contemplating the Bust of Aristotle

In five pages this painting is analyzed in terms of three aspects of the subject's psychological mood, light, and shadow which is ...

Short Stories and Rounded Character Building

The ways in which rounded characters are constructed within short stories are considered in a six page examination of Guy de Maupa...

South Florida, Pediatric Asthma, and Health Promotion

of increasing costs still further and marginalizing greater numbers of individuals and families who no longer can afford the highe...

Cigarette Addiction and Young People

More precisely, in looking at cigarette addiction in young people, what are its causes? The causes of addiction are rather physio...

Scholastic Performance and the Impact of Peer Programs

success of peer programs pertinent to academic achievement. II. Peer Leadership Peer feedback as well as modeling have been...

Elementary School and Family Life Education

informing their children about the "birds and the bees" and expected this topic to be covered within the school curriculum (Price,...

Substance Abuse and Burlington Northern Railroad

because programs at companies that combine substance abuse education and support, along with testing, tend to have far better resu...

Student Advisors and Peer Helpers

normative and functional personal interactions. Antisocial children appear to be individuals who were rejected from normative soc...

High School Experience Reflections

of keeping a proper balance between the informal and the formal, the incidental and the intentional, modes of education" (Dewey, 1...

Canada, Victimization, and Juvenile Delinquency

reported a higher level of delinquent behavior than did females. Males in grade nine reported higher levels of delinquency than di...

Differences Between Girls and Boys

and often the meaning. Without realizing it, parents verbally address their male children differently than they do their fe...

Harlem's Peer Education Program and Pediatric Asthma

environment. One of the most obvious nursing concerns for pediatric patients is the differing ability of the patient to employ pr...