ENGL 112 Lecture Notes - P16, Socalled
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Bullying at school: a canadian perspective (scholarly article) (shortfall: written before cyberbulling was a major issue) First sentence: terrorize others strong word choice pushes an interpretation towards the readers. Authors outlining reason for writing the paper: to address a knowledge deficit/ gap. Childhood aggression suggests that bullying only has something to do with children. Ongoing something that has to happen repeatedly and over time. Interesting to note: cyberbullying is exclusion and gossip. Trend shows that bullies can have more than one victim. Type of evidence: self-report questionnaires quantitative methodology. Children, teachers, and parents have different perspectives on the problem of bullying, so the authors try to bring the different perspectives into context with each other. If there is a coherent policy within the school, bullying level seem to drop and when the teachers don"t agree with each other, bullying levels are higher. Draw a link between violence in toronto communities to schools.
