Sign Up Now
Get instant access to over 1 million+ study documents
OR
Already registered? click here to login
By creating your account, you agree to our terms of service, privacy policy and student honor code.
Elliot's book Nobody Left to Hate: Teaching Compassion after Columbia brings in social psychology in its treatment of the contemporary school system. Arguing that we would never allow any workplace environment to become as rotten and insidious as the school environment has become, Aronson brings in social psychology to show the effect that the environment can have on any mile. He also leads us through possible interventions that we can use to improve the school setting.
Aaronson points out that cruelty, bullying, humiliation, cliquishness, competition are aspects that occur on a regular routine in many of our schools across the country. More so, educators and parents often fail to stress the need for empathy, cooperation, and the nurturing of "social intelligence." The result is that in an increasing amount of schools, students from dysfunctional homes are buttressed by images of violence form outside society and from the media to transport that violence to school setting and to perpetrate that violence there.
What can we do?
Using psychological principles, Aaronson correlates the case to the steps that British 19th century scientists took when faced with a cholera epidemic. They simply removed the pump handle of a particular contaminated well so that no more water could be drawn from it. After that, they addressed the root of the epidemic which was the closeness of latrines to water supply. In a similar way, Aaronson urges that we curb media violence, enact more stringent gun-control measures, and in some school even impose gun-metal detectors (although he is chary with...
Cure the environment and you may often remove the pathological behavior.
Using social psychology, Aronson also describes interventions that have been used to mitigate pathological behavior such as bullying and taunting. One of these is a famous Norwegian method. Another is the 'jigsaw' classroom that promotes cooperation and social integration. The Norway method was a successful program introduced in Norway by a social psychologist named Dan Olweus. Teachers were trained to recognize and deal with bullying and cooperation was used. Lunchroom and playgrounds were supervised and intensive therapy was put in place for bullies and their parents. The program reduced bullying by approximately 50%.
The 'jigsaw technique' is a method where the class is split into five or six groups…
Reference
Aaronson, E Nobody Left to Hate Macmillan, 2001
This researcher obtained a majority of the relevant, scholarly research through Questia, which advertises itself as the world's largest online library. During the third chapter of this research effort, the methodology segment, this researcher relates techniques utilized in the Literature Research Methodology to manipulate information which later contributed to the verdict of the hypothesis for this study. Information related to implementing and retrieving the bullying questionnaire is shared during the
Rayner, C. & Hoel, H. (1997) A summary review of literature relating to workplace bullying. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology. 7 (3) 181-191. Qualitative Overview of literature on workplace bullying To gather the English-language research together and summarize it. The authors note that while there has been significant research on the subject of bullying in schools, there has been much less on the subject of adult bullying. They note that there
Bullying in Nursing: Issues and Trends When people grow up, get out of school, and move into careers, they may feel they have left bullying behind them. Unfortunately, that is often not the case. Bullies exist all throughout life, and are often found in workplaces around the country and the world. There will always be people who feel they can manipulate and control others, by tearing them down and making them
The impact of workplace bullying on individual’s performance and well-being and how effective leadership can prevent workplace bullying 1. Introduction Among the most salient aspects of an organizational climate potentially impacting an individual’s job satisfaction is workplace bullying on the part of coworkers or superiors. It constitutes any immoral or negative workplace issue such as abuse, harassment, etc. (Yahaya et al., 2012). It may be defined as a typically persistent, personal attack
When most people think of bullying, they conceptualize schoolyard toughs terrorizing their helpless, weaker peers just as they have done for centuries. The harsh reality today, though, is that bullying is also pervasive in the American workplace today. The purpose of this paper is to provide a review and summary of Weidmer’s (2010) journal article concerning workplace bullying and its impact on both the victims and their organizations together with
Workplace violence (Bullying) Workplace violence can be defined as an action that manifests itself in threatening behavior, physical assault, aggression or any other violent form that may be displayed at work setting and may be directed towards coworkers, managers or even the customers themselves. These aggressions can cause emotional or to great extent physical harm or both (USLegal Inc., 2011). In the context of this paper, bullying as one of the aspects