Aggression and Cooperation: Helping Young Children Develop Constructive Strategies

In the past two decades, our understanding of the early roots of children's social behaviors and the importance of those emerging behaviors in the development of overall competence has expanded dramatically. What understandings from this knowledge base can help us support young children as they develop strategies for dealing with complex interpersonal relationships among their peers?

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School Discipline

School discipline has two main goals:

1. Ensure the safety of staff and students
2. Create an environment conducive to learning.

Serious student misconduct involving violent or criminal behavior defeats these goals and often makes headlines in the process. However, the commonest discipline problems involve noncriminal student behavior (Moles 1989).

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