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Brooks, Vicki; Coll, Ken – 1994
Educators have a responsibility to learn more about at-risk youth. This paper examines such youths' family systems and dynamics, their identifying characteristics, and explores possible interventions. If a family perceives many situations as crises, that family usually possesses inadequate coping skills. Children in such families develop their own…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Child Behavior, Children
Capuzzi, David – 1994
The adolescent at risk for suicidal preoccupation and behavior has become an increasing concern for schools and communities. This paper presents some of the causes of teen suicide, things adults should know about adolescent suicide prevention, and what can be done to help such youth. The transition to adolescence is a complex time when many values…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior, Child Behavior, Family Problems
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Jones, Connie A.; Gower, Diane – 1994
Character or values instruction has been relegated to the hidden curriculum since the decline of 1960s values programs. However, teachers are beginning to use character instruction in an organized way. The purpose of this study was to determine whether instruction using children's literature would effect student perceptions of value laden…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Parker-Jenkins, Marie – 2002
Approaching corporal punishment of children in school as a human-rights issue, this paper explores the impact of the European Court of Human Rights on education policy in Europe and the implications it raises for school policy in the United States. Simply stated, the court holds that students have legal rights that schools are obligated to…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Civil Liberties, Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis
Kamler, Barbara – 1993
A study analyzed the multiple purposes of songs in which children in early childhood classrooms sing and move their bodies to the lyrics, the discourses the songs mobilize, and the gendered positions the songs accomplish. Subjects, 28 students entering their first year in a suburban primary school in a large regional center in southern Victoria,…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research
Fitzgerald, Gail E.; Nichols, Polly J.; Semrau, Louis P. – 1998
This paper describes an alternative delivery approach for training personnel in observation skills using interactive multimedia technology. The "Classroom Behavior Record (CBR) Observation Training Program," includes three videodiscs that contain video and audio scenes of children in classrooms/playgroups and instructional narrations.…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavior Rating Scales, Child Behavior, Classroom Observation Techniques