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Author Beaudoin, Marie-Nathalie.

Title Breaking the culture of bullying and disrespect grades K-8 : best practices and successful strategies / Marie-Nathalie Beaudoin, Maureen Taylor
Published Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press ; London : Sage, [2004]
©2004

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Description xvii, 235 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
regular print
Contents Machine derived contents note: Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Part I: Laying Foundations -- 1. How Problems Develop: A Frog Story and a Shift in Perspective -- A Limited Number of Options -- Useful Options Are Also Eliminated -- Does Everyone Have the Same Contextual Blocks? -- 2. Are Problems of Disrespect Inadvertently Supported? -- Competition Between Students -- The Rule and the Hammer -- Achievement at All Cost -- Evaluation -- 3. Unraveling Assumptions: Educators' Roles and Students' Behaviors -- Assumption 1: Problems Are Caused by Individuals Who Are Believed to Have a Significant Control Over Their Lives -- Assumption 2: Someone Is Right and Someone Is Wrong -- Assumption 3: There Is a Truth That Can Be Retrieved Somehow, if Everyone Would Relate to and Agree on the Exact Course of Events -- Assumption 4: Adults Need to Get Involved to Solve Student Conflicts -- Assumption 5: A Punishment Is Necessary to Teach Students That This Is Unacceptable -- Common School Questions: New Ways of Thinking -- 4. Responding Effectively to Incidents of Bullying and Disrespect -- A Fresh Attitude -- Chipping Away at the Problem With a Powerful Tool: Externalization -- Dealing Narratively With Disrespect and Bullying -- A Narrative Response -- Summary of the Practice of Externalizing -- Common Questions About the Externalization Process -- 5. Being Respectful and Open to Students' Experiences -- A. Defining "Experience" -- B. Experience of School -- C. Overlapping Experiences of the Problem -- D. Addressing These Experiences -- 6. Making Changes Last for More Than a Week -- The Dandelion Problem -- Multiple Selves: Who Is the Real Person? -- Stories -- Stories Are Created Through Language -- Mindfilling the Blanks -- An Educator's Question: If Truths Don't Exist, How Do We Know Which Story to Go for? -- The Thread of New Stories: Recapitulation -- Re-Authoring Alex's Journey -- Common Teacher Questions, New Ways of Thinking -- Part II: Applications and Examples: Success Stories of Overcoming Bullying and Disrespect -- 7. Listening to Students' Voices -- Disrespect/Bullying Survey -- Interviews: Walking In Students' Shoes -- 8. Cultivating Respect, Appreciation, and Tolerance in the School -- Connection -- Appreciation -- Collaboration -- Self-Reflection -- Community and Diversity -- Respect and Shedding Adultism -- Teacher Questions About Shedding Adultism -- 9. Dealing With Disrespect and Bullying in the Classroom: The Bugging Bug Project -- A Review of the Narrative Ideas That Guide This Project -- Section 1: Externalizing the Problem -- Section 2: Building on Successes -- Section 3: Celebration of Knowledge and Expertise -- Brief Summary of Classroom Facilitation Considerations -- Conclusion -- 10. Working With Individual Students Around Bullying: Helping a Child Suffering From a "Bullying Spell" -- A Problem-Dominated Identity -- Rewriting the Story in a Vacuum or Land of the Quicksand -- Rewriting the Story in the Community -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Resource A: Glossary -- Resource B: Summary Table of Strategies -- Resource C: Solutions to Disrespect and Bullying From Around the World -- Resource D: Discourses -- Resource E: Questions for Kids -- Resource F: Feedback About the Bugging Bug Project -- References -- Index
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Education, Primary -- United States.
Education, Elementary -- United States.
Bullying in schools -- United States -- Prevention.
School discipline -- United States.
Author Taylor, Maureen, 1967-
LC no. 2003018579
ISBN 0761946608 :
0761946616 paperback