Aggression and Violence

This topic was interesting. I already thought about aggression in the second semester for my research proposal of Research Method 1. I made it more specific with rational aggression. According to the book of educational psychology it is used to call a verbal abuse.

It was not merely make a student got suicide because of receiving aggression or violence from others but it would influence students’ performance during the class and I think it was difficult (although it is possible) for the teacher to control it. In my school observation, I saw an elementary student got silent along the class and refused to do the class assignment after she was ridiculed by her friends. She got zero for her previous assignment and her friends knew her score before herself because her assignment book passed her friends openly who sat before her. I still remember her face expression when I came to the class because she was one chair besides me in the back of the class. She was cheerful. She made children’s joke and laughed together with her friends.

The girl bowed her head little bit after being a joke of others and played her pencil on the table. The teacher came and asked her to do the assignment from the board but she ignored the teacher. She did not even saw the teacher and she kept bowing her head and looked at her pencil.

This matter is like a simple thing ever but it is truly give big impact toward the victim’s psychology. I do agree with Martan’s statement if aggression and violence will not leave a mark in the body of the victim. It is marked on the heart. No one will know it and no one can truly help them to recover it except themselves. It is important for parents to help the children develop the psychological need of their children. Then it is important for the teacher to do that in the school.

I think being in a big class can make this thing easily happen. Reflecting to what happen to the girl above. The setting was in a big class and all the students were noisy. It could be a reason that the teacher did not do anything when her student was ridiculed because the teacher did not know. Safety is very important for children. Therefore teacher’s attention toward everything that happen to the students is important and having a small class may help much toward that job.