Espelage and Swearer's "School Bullying"

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This paper explains that virtually the entire paper by Espelage and Swearer is a literature review, and it seems to be quite complete, within limits. The author points out, that, within each subsection of the paper, Espelage and Swearer offer hypotheses in terms of future research, not in terms of what these authors have concluded from their own research. The paper stresses that the real problem with the presentation is the organization and a number of usage points that are erroneous.

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"That having been said, it is difficult to identify a theoretical rationale, or at least to identify a SINGLE theoretical rationale. Within the paper's numerous sections, there are abundant mini-rationales. For example, there are the issues of race and bullying. The authors not that "it appears the prevalence of bullies across race/ethnicity is perhaps less important than how racial dynamics influence the content of the bullying (Espelage & Swearer, 2003, p. 372)". And again, they identify theoretical bases regarding anger (p. 373), anxiety (p. 363), empathy (p. 373) and then move on to external bases, such as "Peer-Level Characteristics in the Bullying Dynamic (p. 375)" and "School Factors (p. 377)" and more."

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