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Ryan Holmes; Lucy Kearney; Sheetal Gopal; Inderpal Daddi – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
Background: The STOMP agenda (Stopping Over-Medication of People with learning disabilities, autism, or both) drew focus to individuals with a diagnosis of a learning disability being prescribed psychotropic medication to manage 'behaviours that challenge'. The following study is an audit of two community learning disability services in the London…
Descriptors: Drug Therapy, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Learning Disabilities
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Bowden, Nicholas; Milne, Barry; Audas, Richard; Clasby, Betony; Dacombe, Joanne; Forster, Warren; Kokaua, Jesse; Gibb, Sheree; Hughes, Nathan; MacCormick, Conrad; Smiler, Kirsten; Taylor, Barry; Mirfin-Veitch, Brigit – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2022
While sensationalist headlines and highly publicised criminal cases have led many to believe there is a link between autism and criminal behaviour, extant literature presents an unresolved debate. We sought to address this issue by examining the prevalence of criminal justice system interactions among young adults with and without autism, and by…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Juvenile Justice, Foreign Countries
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Hepburn, Lorna; Poed, Shiralee – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2021
Positive behaviour for learning (PBL) was introduced to the state education sector in Queensland in the early 2000s in an effort to move schools away from use of punitive disciplinary practices towards a positive and supportive approach to student behaviour. Although around half of state schools in Queensland have received training to implement…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Positive Behavior Supports, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems
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Mota, Ana Isabel; Lopes, João; Oliveira, Célia – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
The burnout syndrome is a public health problem and is considered a subjective experience, which depends on the interpretation and evaluation individuals make of their work. In the educational context, the causes and consequences of burnout in teachers are multiple. The aim of this study is to explore the profiles of teachers with burnout and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Foreign Countries, Teacher Burnout
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Murphy, Rick – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2022
A rising number of children are permanently excluded from school each year in England. Children's experiences of exclusion are underrepresented in the literature, effectively giving prominence to the views and interpretations of researchers. This qualitative study uses semi-structured interviews to explore the ways in which excluded children story…
Descriptors: Expulsion, Research Methodology, Semi Structured Interviews, Data Analysis
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Oxley, Laura; Holden, George W. – Educational & Child Psychology, 2021
Aims: Maintaining order is a fundamental task for teachers in the classroom. Historically, some form of punishment has been the common response to undesirable behaviour. However, over the past two and a half decades, a different approach to classroom management, sometimes labelled 'positive discipline', is being increasingly adopted by schools.…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Positive Behavior Supports, Punishment, Behavior Problems
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Linda Ekström – Journal of Social Science Education, 2024
Purpose: This paper examines how vocational civics teachers navigate structural constraints and their understanding of the challenges involved in preparing vocational students for democratic citizenship. Design/methodology/approach: Using a discursive psychological approach to analyse interview material, the study discusses identified discourses…
Descriptors: Civics, Citizenship Education, Career and Technical Education Teachers, Barriers
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Katic, Barbara; Alba, Laura A.; Johnson, Austin H. – Journal of School Violence, 2020
Despite its increasing recognition and use in U.S. schools, a limited amount of research has evaluated the effect of restorative justice (RJ) for school violence prevention and response. To date, there is no standardized method for RJ implementation. Therefore, this systematic literature review investigates peer-reviewed studies on the application…
Descriptors: Justice, Conflict Resolution, Violence, Prevention
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Mowat, Joan Gaynor – Improving Schools, 2019
The poverty-related attainment gap is an internationally recognised problem. There is growing recognition that it cannot either be understood or addressed without taking cognisance of children's mental health and wellbeing. The focus of this conceptual article is to examine the impact of social inequality and poverty on the mental health and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Stratification, Poverty, Mental Health
Mills, Martin, Ed.; McCluskey, Gillean, Ed. – Trentham Books, 2018
'Alternative education' encompasses a diversity of schooling types and organizations. "International Perspectives on Alternative Education" explores alternative forms of schooling from the position of academics, policy workers, and those working and studying in such schools across the world. The first-hand accounts by those working and…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Academic Achievement
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Pillay, Thashika; Asadi, Neda – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2018
Available statistics and literature indicate that Somali-Canadian youth face unique challenges in their everyday lives. Somali students have a 36.7 % dropout rate (Jibril, 2011). Somali-Canadian community members in Edmonton contend that Somali-Canadian students are labelled with behavioural or cognitive disorders, diagnoses that do not take into…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Immigrants, Refugees, Cultural Background
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Hopkins, Thomas; Clegg, Judy; Stackhouse, Joy – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2018
Background: A high prevalence of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) is reported in the population of Young Offenders (YO). However, little is known about the extent of the association between language and offending behaviour relative to social disadvantage, education attendance and non-verbal intelligence (IQ), and neither has this association…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Delinquency, Juvenile Justice, Expository Writing
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Sarwar, Samiullah – Journal of Education and Educational Development, 2016
This research determined the influence of parents and their parenting styles on children's behavior. The author examined different parenting styles to understand which style leads the children to be juvenile delinquent, that ultimately makes the children low academic achievers. In this paper, the researcher attempts to bring an original…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Child Behavior, Interviews, Parent Role
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Igbineweka, V. O.; Iguodala, W. A.; Anukaenyi, Blessing Osuigwe – Journal of Education and Learning, 2016
Nigeria, situated in the West African sub-region of the African continent has an estimated population of over 170 million people with 146 universities. The demand for these universities in the recent past has been unprecedented with an average of 1.5 million applicants for placement annually, the highest anywhere in the world. Regrettably, public…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems
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Alampay, Liane Peña; Godwin, Jennifer; Lansford, Jennifer E.; Bombi, Anna Silvia; Bornstein, Marc H.; Chang, Lei; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Giunta, Laura Di; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Malone, Patrick S.; Oburu, Paul; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Tapanya, Sombat; Tirado, Liliana M. Uribe; Zelli, Arnaldo; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2017
There is strong evidence of a positive association between corporal punishment and negative child outcomes, but previous studies have suggested that the manner in which parents implement corporal punishment moderates the effects of its use. This study investigated whether severity and justness in the use of corporal punishment moderate the…
Descriptors: Punishment, Justice, Incidence, Child Behavior
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