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MEDIA ADVISORY YORK UNIVERSITY EXPERT ON BULLYING AND CHILDHOOD VIOLENCE REFLECTS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF AGGRESSIVE CHILDREN TORONTO, January 27, 1998 -- Dr. Debra Pepler, York University's internationally recognized expert on childhood and adolescent violence, will reflect on the development of schoolyard bullying, teenage aggression and dating violence in a lecture on Thursday, January 29. In her lecture, entitled "A Peek Behind the Fence: Understanding Children's Aggression Through Remote Audiovisual Observations on the Playground," Pepler will look back at the phenomenon of child and adolescent bullying and evaluate what researchers like her have been able to discover about it. Her lecture will look at explore why children are aggressive, and will evaluate the seriousness of the problem. Pepler's research at York's LaMarsh Centre for Research on Violence and Conflict Resolution is particularly timely because of recent incidents exposing brutal and aggressive behaviour by teenage girls. While Pepler, like many other Canadians, has been alarmed by the recent rash of violent incidents involving girls, she does not believe we are experiencing a "crisis." Rather she suggests that those girls who were already prone to aggression are expressing their aggression in more drastic ways. Pepler's research has always focused on finding solutions to childhood and teenage violence. She most recently completed a four-year study of school-age children (ages six to 12), in which she used hidden video cameras to record their bullying and aggressive behaviour in classrooms and playgrounds. Excerpts from these videotapes will be played during the lecture. Pepler used her findings to evaluate how schools, parents and teachers are dealing with bullying and aggression.
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