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ERIC Number: EJ522838
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1996
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Abstractor: N/A
Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0040-0599
Curses! What Can We Do about Cursing?
White, Richard B.; Koorland, Mark A.
TEACHING Exceptional Children, v28 n4 p48-52 Sum 1996
This article offers teachers 12 suggestions for dealing with cursing by students, such as teaching students the differences among assaultive cursing, racial insults and slurs, lewd and sexually assaultive insults and slurs, and profanity and epithets; differentially reinforcing less offensive profanity; trying self-mediated interventions; and implementing group contingent interventions. (DB)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Communication Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Intervention, Language Usage, Student Behavior, Teacher Student Relationship
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Non-Classroom
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
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Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers: Cursing