Learning, Knowledge and Human Development MOOC’s Updates
social and emotional conditions affect learning
have to think about the messaging. Most high school students don't want to be talked to like an elementary school. We know that we have reduced bullying perpetration and victimization only by 20 percent. So, what is happening? What do we need to think? So, there's a movement to re-evaluate what we're doing. A lot of the programs would just say, "Stop bullying, don't do that, be a bystander." The reality is that we have a lot of social science, a lot of do not know psychology literature that points to what we call the risk and protective factors model around bullying, which bullying is associated with other forms of violence in middle school and high school. They share some overlapping risk and protective factors. So, what we've tried to do is one, breakdown the academic silos where some will say, "I study bullying, I study sexual violence, I study this." In fact, those are different forms of violence whether it's bullying or pure aggression, sexual harassment actually share the same risk and protective factors