DQ5

Learning Resources

This page contains the Learning Resources for this week. Be sure to scroll down the page to see all of the assigned resources for this week. To view this week's media resources, please use the streaming media player below.

Required Resources

• Course Text: Marion, M. (2015). Guidance of young children (9th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc.
  • Chapter 11, "Minimizing Challenging Behavior" (pp. 289-312)
  • Chapter 10, "Aggression and Bullying in Young Children" (pp. 266-288)

Media

• Video: Laureate Education (Producer). (2009). You can make a difference [Video file]. Retrieved from https://class.waldenu.edu
  
  Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 6 minutes
  
  Dr. Marilyn Gootman discusses one of the ways caring adults can make a tremendous difference in children's lives.
   

Discussion Resources:
To prepare for the Discussion this week, you will need to read at least three sources of information on young children and aggression. All of the resources below are highly recommended. However, you may choose to read others that you find yourself.

General

• Article: "Managing Aggressive Behavior in Young Children" by Carolyn R. Tomlin
  http://www.earlychildhoodnews.com/earlychildhood/article_view.aspx?ArticleID=594
  
  
• Article: "Behavior Problems by the University of Michigan Health System" by the University of Michigan Health System
  http://www.med.umich.edu/yourchild/topics/behave.htm

Family Influences

• Article: "Preventing Violence by Teaching Non-Violent Problem-Solving" by the American Psychological Association
  http://www.apa.org/research/action/nonviolent.aspx
  
  
• Article: "ACT: Adults & Children Together Against Violence"
• • "Concern for Others Studied in Young Children with Behavior Problems: Good Parenting May Have an Effect"
    http://actagainstviolence.apa.org/specialtopics/concern.html
    
    
  • "Family Stress, Parenting Beliefs and Cognitive and Emotional Reactions Can Lead to Harsh Discipline"
    http://actagainstviolence.apa.org/specialtopics/discipline.html
    
    
  • "Constant Yelling Can Be Just As Harmful to Children as Physical Abuse"
    http://actagainstviolence.apa.org/specialtopics/yelling.html
    
    
• Article: "Smoking During Pregnancy Fosters Aggression in Children" by e! Science News
  http://esciencenews.com/articles/2009/01/06/smoking.during.pregnancy.fosters.aggression.children
  
  
• Article: "Study: Verbal Aggression May Affect Children's Behavior" by e! Science News
  http://esciencenews.com/articles/2008/08/04/study.verbal.aggression.may.affect.childrens.behavior

Media Influences

• Article: "Exposure to Media Violence and Young Children with and Without Disabilities: Powerful Opportunities for Family-Professional Partnerships" by Elizabeth J. Erwin and Naomi Morton
  http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10643-008-0276-x
  
  
• Position Statement: "Media Violence in Children's Lives" by the National Association for the Education of Young Children
  http://www.healthymediachoices.org/Healthy_Media_Choices/Resources_for_Media-Savvy_Pre-School_Teachers_and_Childcare_Providers_files/NAEYC Violence in the Lives of Children.pdf
  
  
• Article: "Children, Adolescents, and Television" by the Committee on Public Education
  http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/107/2/423.full.pdf+html
  
  
• Article: "Violence in the Media - Psychologists Help Protect Children from Harmful Effects" by the American Psychological Association
  http://www.apa.org/research/action/protect.aspx
  
  
• Article: ACT: Adults & Children Together Against Violence
• • "Media Violence & Children at Home"
    http://actagainstviolence.apa.org/mediaviolence/athome.html
    
    
  • "Media Violence & Children at the Childcare Center & School"
    http://actagainstviolence.apa.org/mediaviolence/atschool.html
    
    
• Testimony: "Violent Video Games Increase Aggression and Violence"
  http://www.psychology.iastate.edu/faculty/caa/abstracts/2000-2004/00Senate.html
  
  Testimony of Craig A. Anderson, PhD to the Senate Commerce Committee hearing on "The Impact of Interactive Violence on Children"
  
  
• Web Site: Children Now
  http://www.childrennow.org/index.php/learn/medias_impact/index.html

Peer Influences

• Article: "Contagion of Aggression in Day Care Classrooms as a Function of Peer and Teacher Responses" by ACT: Adults & Children Together Against Violence
  http://actagainstviolence.apa.org/specialtopics/contagionaggress.html
  
  
• Article: "Starting Out Early: What Parents Need to Know About Peer Relationships" by Michel Boivin, PhD and Catherine Bissonnette, MA
  http://www.education.com/reference/article/peer-relationships-young-children/
  
  
• Article: "Teasing and Bullying: No Laughing Matter" by Diana Townsend-Butterworth
  http://www.scholastic.com/parents/resources/article/social-emotional-skills/bullying-and-teasing-no-laughing-matter
  
  
• Article: "Bullying in Kindergarten" by Francoise Alsaker
  http://www.education.com/reference/article/kindergarten-bullying

Societal Influences

• Position Statement: "Violence in the Lives of Children" by the National Association for the Education of Young Children
  http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/PSVIOL98.PDF
  
  
• Web Site: Center for the Study of Violence
  http://www.psychology.iastate.edu/faculty/caa/CSV/index.htm
  
  
• Web Site: The Lion & Lamb Project
  http://www.lionlamb.org/

Optional Resources

• Article: "Preventing Challenging Behavior In Young Children: Effective Practices" by Peter J. Alter and Maureen A. Conroy
  Technical Assistance Center on Social Emotional Intervention for Young Children
  http://www.challengingbehavior.org/do/resources/handouts.htm
  
  
• Article: "Challenging Behavior in Young Children" by Barbara Kaiser and Judy Sklar Rasminsky
  http://www.challengingbehavior.com/excerpts.html
  

Violence and Aggression in Childhood

As you have learned this week from the reading in Chapter 10 and viewing the video program, aggressive behavior in young children is often first learned in a child's family. However, media, the Internet, peer groups, community, culture, and even biology may also be key influences on children who show aggression.

This Discussion will provide you with an opportunity to learn more about these influences by researching and reviewing at least three additional sources that focus on aggression in young children. Choose from among the resources listed in Required Resources, or find sources of your own on comparable topics.

As you read various articles, look for:

• Current research on causes of aggression
  
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• Evidence of influences on aggression in children
  
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• Prevention strategies to recommend
  
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• Advocacy strategies to recommend

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  With these thoughts in mind:
  
  By Day 3:
  
  

   

  Post your response to the following:
  

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  • Describe new information you learned about young children and aggression that you consider essential for early childhood professionals to know. Explain your reasoning, citing your sources.
    
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    Recommend an article/articles you read and/or explain why you would not recommend specific articles.
    
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  • Share one way that early childhood professionals can act as advocates to help protect young children from influences that promote aggression. Cite your sources.

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