Título: Preventing Bullying Through Science, Policy, and Practice
Autor: National Academies of Sciences
Sinopse: Bullying has long been tolerated as a rite of passage among children and adolescents. There is an implication that individuals who are bullied must have "asked for" this type of treatment, or deserved it. Sometimes, even the child who is bullied begins to internalize this idea. For many years, there has been a general acceptance and collective shrug when it comes to a child or adolescent with greater social capital or power pushing around a child perceived as subordinate. But bullying is not developmentally appropriate; it should not be considered a normal part of the typical social grouping that occurs throughout a child's life. Although bullying behavior endures through generations, the milieu is changing. Historically, bulling has occurred at school, the physical setting in which most of childhood is centered and the primary source for peer group formation. In recent years, however, the physical setting is not the only place bullying is occurring. Technology allows for an entirely new type of digital electronic aggression, cyberbullying, which takes place through chat rooms, instant messaging, social media, and other forms of digital electronic communication. Composition of peer groups, shifting demographics, changing societal norms, and modern technology are contextual factors that must be considered to understand and effectively react to bullying in the United States. Youth are embedded in multiple contexts and each of these contexts interacts with individual characteristics of youth in ways that either exacerbate or attenuate the association between these individual characteristics and bullying perpetration or victimization. Recognizing that bullying behavior is a major public health problem that demands the concerted and coordinated time and attention of parents, educators and school administrators, health care providers, policy makers, families, and others concerned with the care of children, this report evaluates the state of the science on biological and psychosocial consequences of peer victimization and the risk and protective factors that either increase or decrease peer victimization behavior and consequences.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Preventing Bullying Through Science, Policy, and Practice”, de National Academies of Sciences, publicado pela editora National Academies Press, em 2016 e com 362 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: National Academies Press
Páginas: 362
Ano: 2016
Edição:
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 030944067X
ISBN13: 9780309440677
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora National Academies Press costumam oferecer uma leitura densa e informativa, focada em temas científicos, tecnológicos e sociais de relevância pública. A experiência de leitura envolve um mergulho em análises detalhadas, muitas vezes com tom técnico e rigoroso, que dialogam com profissionais, pesquisadores e formuladores de políticas. O catálogo apresenta obras que abordam desde desafios contemporâneos como segurança cibernética e mudanças climáticas até questões da saúde pública e educação, sempre com uma linguagem que privilegia a clareza e a fundamentação científica. Há uma predominância de textos que combinam estudos de caso, revisões de evidências e recomendações práticas, o que indica um padrão editorial orientado para o impacto social e a aplicação do conhecimento. A variedade do catálogo também sugere contrastes entre abordagens mais narrativas, como em relatos de oficinas e workshops, e outras mais informativas e técnicas, como análises de políticas e tecnologias.
