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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"school shooting"”.
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A school shooting : bullying, violence and an institution's response
… examines how those who are marked different in school are also marked "wrong" and marginalized and how that marking often leads to bullying. It examines the significance that those markings have on those who are marked, on those who mark and on those who are witnesses. This is an analysis of …
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School Counselors Lived Experience of a Rampage School Shooting
<p>Minimal research has been conducted to examine school counselors’ lived experiences of rampage school shootings. The purpose of this research is to increase school counselors’ knowledge and skills in responding effectively to such a crisis. A single-case qualitative dissertation study was …
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Idea Generation in Group Decision-Making During School Shooting Simulations
… evacuation of students and staff for potential school shooting scenarios. The groups also use a blueprint in an additional session for the same task for comparison to the geosimulation results. The analysis is based on both the dialogue of the groups and a questionnaire that each participant …
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Strain and the School Shooter: A Theoretical Approach to the Offender's Perspective
… inexplicable acts of mass violence such as school shootings. </p> <p>Incidents such as Columbine have culturally defined the public idea of a school shooting, sometimes creating the image of dark and angry teenagers stalking the hallways of every high school in America, all the while …
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Noble or Malevolent in a Moment of Dismay: How Postsecondary Students Construe and Characterize Bystander Action in School Violence Shooting Incidents
<p>Multiple incidents of postsecondary school shooting violence have occurred in American society--prompting concern about safety on college campuses, administrators' roles in prevention, and proactive and responsible bystander actions. Active shooter plans have become more established in …
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Public school response to the trauma of school shootings.
Public school shootings in the United States have reached levels of epidemic concern. Current research related to U.S. school shootings addresses a variety of issues including historical analysis, political influences and policymaking, prevention efforts for school shootings, and risk factors for …
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Social importance of recognizing the victimization for mothers of school shooters
… and Parvinder Sandhu as secondary victims of school shooting homicides. With the application of Becker’s (1963) labelling theory, there is an opportunity to examine the potential ramifications these secondary victims suffer as the result of the shootings, in addition to examining if they are …
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The Crisis and Its Crises: An Analysis of the Public Information to the Columbine High School Shootings
… April 20, 1999, America was witness to the worst school shooting in a suburban, middle class neighborhood of its time at Columbine High School. Everyone assumed it would never happen in Littleton, Colorado, but it did and the public information officers of three Jefferson County agencies assumed …
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Media exposure to trauma, psychotherapy, and false memories : a recipe for disaster? : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of Doctor of Clinical Psychology at Massey University, Manawatū, New Zealand
… first watched a 10-minute video of a fictional school shooting. Between five and ten days later, they were randomly assigned to receive misinformation or no misinformation about the video before completing a recognition test. Misinformed participants were less accurate at discriminating between …
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Leading in an era of school violence : a qualitative study of the impact of school shootings on school principals
This case study explored the impacts of school shootings on K-12 school principals. Eleven school principals and assistant principals from rural, suburban, and urban areas in all regions of the United States were interviewed. The study answered two research questions: What impact do school …
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Safety and security concerns: perceptions of preparedness of a rural school district
School safety and security continues to be a concern in schools throughout the world as it is not a matter of if, but when a crisis will occur. There is a large segment of the population that attends schools in rural settings making preparedness in rural schools a timely topic. The purpose of this …
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Armed to learn: aiming at California K-12 school gun policy
Although the idea of a school shooting strikes fear in the hearts of school administrators, school employees, and parents, there is no agreement on whether arming employees is a sound strategy to counter this threat. There is a wide gap in viewpoints between gun control advocates who want tighter …
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Evaluation of an Elementary PBIS Bully Prevention Program
<p>School bullying has become an international source of concern. The media has captured the attention of the public with coverage of incidents such as the Columbine massacre. On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked through their school, shooting particular students they found. One …
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District Superintendents' Experiences During The COVID-19 Crisis
… a district leader may experience, including school closure, severe weather, school shooting, flooding, student or staff death, and more recently, a pandemic. There is a lack of research concerning how leaders make sense of widespread societal crises such as the recent COVID-19 pandemic. …
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Gendered Film Criticism and “Intolerable Images”: Representation of Female Trauma in Brady Corbet’s <em>Vox Lux</em> (2018)
… The film centers on Celeste, a survivor of a school shooting who rises to pop stardom, depicting an eighteen-year narrative that transforms her personal trauma into a public spectacle and a critique of American culture. Through theoretical frameworks from Judith Lewis Herman, E. Ann Kaplan, …
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Re-Imagining America: Twenty-First Century Disaster And Salvation In Contemporary Fiction
… Texas town's wildly inappropriate response to a school shooting to explore the factors that allow both violent crime and brutal punishment to continue their ravages on American society.
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Every Parent's Worst Nightmare: Surveillance of Criteria-based, Rampage School Shooters, 1995-2015
<p>Rampage School Shootings are a violation of one’s right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of individual happiness. Little children, school teachers head out to school, only to never return home at the end of the day. Idiosyncratic psycho-social behaviors drive Rampage School Shooter (RSS) …
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Retaining principals in high poverty public schools
The turnover of school principals in high-poverty schools is having a profound impact on student achievement. Principal turnover influences teacher turnover, sustainability of school improvement efforts, and generates increased financial costs to the district. Research cites the demands of the job, …
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(Mis)Diagnosing Silence: A Cultural Criticism of the Virginia Tech News Coverage of Silence as Public Pedagogy
… Virginia Tech became the site of the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history (Breed, 2007). Because of the tragedy at Virginia Tech, news reports all over the U.S. probed about what caused the perpetrator, Seung-Hui Cho, to kill 32 students and faculty members. As the mainstream media talked …
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Three Essays In The Sociology Of Violence: Repertoire Paralysis, Localized Diffusion, And Emotional Interventions In De-Escalation
… after a gunman threatened to commit a school shooting. Using audio and video recordings along with a memoir, I analyze how the school bookkeeper, acting as hostage and negotiator, convinced the gunman to surrender. The turning point resulted from two emotional processes, one bolstering …
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