ED390552 PS023850

 

Title: Hidden Casualties: The Relationship between Violence and Learning.
Author(s): Prothrow-Stith, Deborah; Quaday, Sher
Author Affiliation: National Health & Education Consortium, Washington, DC.(BBB33145); National Consortium for African American Children, Inc., Washington, DC. (BBB33146)
Pages: 40
Publication Date: 1995
Notes: For an article excerpted from this document, see EA 027 226.
Sponsoring Agency: Mott (C.S.) Foundation, Flint, MI. (BBB04331)@Prudential Foundation, Newark, NJ. (BBB18809)
ISBN: 0-937846-38-4
Available from: EDRS Price MF01 Plus Postage. PC Not Available from EDRS.
Availability: National Health and Education Consortium, c/o the Institute for Educational Leadership, 1001 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Suite 310, Washington, DC 20036 ($10).
Language: English
Document Type: Reports--Descriptive (141)
Geographic Source: U.S.; District of Columbia
Journal Announcement: RIEMAY1996

This report is intended to support the goal of primary prevention of violence. The report examines how violence affects the development and learning abilities of children and youth. Seeing family violence, living in unsafe neighborhoods, witnessing violence, and being exposed to the harsh lives often faced by immigrants and refugees places children in a precarious position where progression through normal stages of development is stifled. While learning is affected by exposure to violence, learning can also lead to the prevention of violence. Schools can play a significant role in this prevention. "Guideposts" for breaking the cycle of violence include: (1) the recognition that parents are children's first and most essential teachers; (2) a multidisciplinary approach to violence prevention; (3) incorporation of violence prevention into the current curriculum; (4) recognition that schools alone cannot stop violence; (5) refusal on the part of communities to tolerate violence as an entrenched condition of modern life; and (6) understanding that no one group is the cause of violence in the United States. Four appendices include information on violence prevention programs; evaluation of programs; the National Health and Education Consortium; and the National Consortium for African American Children, Inc. (Contains 44 references.) (JW)

Descriptors: Behavior Problems; Children; Cognitive Development; Emotional Problems; Family Environment; Family Violence; Immigrants; *Learning Problems; *Prevention; Refugees; *Role of Education; School Role; Social Influences; Social Problems; *Violence
Identifiers: Witnesses to Violence