Psychology in the Schools‚ Vol. 47(4)‚ 2010 Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com) C 2010 Wiley Periodicals‚ Inc. DOI: 10.1002/pits.20473 THE EXPERIENCE OF BULLYING AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS CHRISTINA ATHANASIADES AND VASSILIKI DELIYANNI-KOUIMTZIS School of Psychology‚ Aristotle University of Thessaloniki The present study was designed to qualitatively investigate secondary students’ interpretations and experiences of bullying (and victimization) in
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April 5th‚ 2006 EDU 326: Sociology of Education Section #:1 Topic: Explain how poverty‚ a major risk factor confronting students entering school‚ can impact Bahamian students in their educational achievement levels. Like other societies‚ the Bahamian society believes that today’s children are to achieve at the highest level in education. These children should be ‘the crème of the crop’ if the nation must prosper economically now and in the future
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enabled new educational delivery methods like E-learning. It is the use of technology to enable people to learn anytime and anywhere. E-learning applications and processes include Web-based learning‚ computer-based learning‚ virtual education opportunities and digital collaboration. stakeholders at different levels‚ such as researcher‚ practitioners and institutions understand the value of e-learning [Kira 2009]‚ thus countries all over the world has adapted to this new delivery method‚ and Fiji
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A hot topic discussed is if school lunch is healthy or not. It all started when Obama was elected. Then the 1st Lady Michelle‚ came up and started a move. Her goal is for kids to eat healthy and nutritious lunches at school. Since she and her husband are in charge of this country lots of schools have been making changes. Many schools in the United States have been made major and minor changes to their school lunch programs. Some of the students‚ parents‚ and staff acquiesce to the recommendation
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education has been engaged in a process of “massification‚” that is‚ expanding to serve students from all walks of life‚” (Eckel‚ King 20) these students include women‚ middle class‚ and minorities who need the economic and social change. Now in the twenty-first century college is just a natural progression for high school students. In this day and age‚ is going to college important? Throughout high school‚ students are pressured to continue their academic career by attending a four year college as
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PROS & CONS OF SINGLE-SEX SCHOOL ON STUDENTS Pros & Cons of Single-Sex School on Students INTRODUCTION Single-sex school has not been a stranger to us even from back in those old days. It practically shows how gender differences and effects caused by it had largely impacted on the society. People learnt how the attraction between Adam and Eve kind brings a lot of many things‚ including the separation of these two kinds through - one of the most important thing to the society‚ the education
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The Ideals of the Gettysburg Address On November 19‚ 1863‚ President Abraham Lincoln‚ presented his now-famous Gettysburg Address to a large crowd that had assembled to dedicate a battlefield where thousands of soldiers had lost their lives. The United States of America was at war with itself. The southern states had seceded from the northern union of states and had formed the Confederate States of America. The United States were no longer united. President Lincoln had to say something to
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It was a horrid day today. I fell asleep in math‚ failed a test in science‚ and had to do 55 push-ups in P.E. because the coach thought I was talking while he was explaining how to play flag football! On top of that‚ I have to walk home in the rain‚ and it’s my birthday! I was completed drenched from head to toe‚ and I was shivering. As much as I wanted to get home as fast as I could‚ the rain got harder and slowed me down. As I approached the front door‚ I remembered how terrible my room
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His Journey for Spain The departure of Jose Rizal for Spain was kept secret from Spanish authorities‚ friars and even to his parents especially to his mother because she would not allow him to go. Only handful of family members and trusted family friends were informed. In order to avoid detection‚ he used the name Jose Mercado‚ name of his cousin in Calamba. Before his departure‚ he scribbled farewell letters to his parents and his sweetheart Leonor Rivera. On May 3‚ 1882 he boarded on Salvador
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This social issue has been present for hundreds of years; the standard belief that one must be ‘pretty’ to be accepted in society. Through the past decades we can see a trend in this. Women are required to have a certain body shape‚ their faces must be a certain way‚ they must weigh this amount only‚ and makeup is the best way to make someone ‘beautiful’. This is an unhealthy obsession created by a society that does not even know what it means to be realistically beautiful. They make up these outrageous
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