Category: Presentations

Professional Presentations made in various contexts: international, national, regional, local.

Pedagogy and Violence in the World of Children

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This presentation was made at the Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology conference in Norfolk, VA in 2018. It provides an introduction to a course designed to reduce violence in the lives of children. It also explores the roots of a pedagogy designed to link student experiences as children with their learning of social science of child maltreatment following the… Read more →

Corporal Punishment as an Obstacle to Developmental Assets and In Support of Children – Co-Authored with Karen A. Polonko, 2014

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This invited presentation (POWER POINT) in Arlington Virginia for teachers and administrators was part of a SEARCH INSTITUTE program on Developmental Assets. The presentation describes how corporal punishment interferes with developmental assets making ‘children’s work’ more difficult even when supports are present. It also discusses IN SUPPORT OF CHILDREN a student group at Old Dominion University founder in the early… Read more →

Senior Scholar Presentation: My Journey With Violence 2006

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November 2006 This presentation was for colleagues in the College of Arts and Letters at Old Dominion University, November 2006. The presentation describes the things that lead me to study and try to understand the topics of prisons, violence, violence and children. It links my academic work to a need to understand that was never just academic! Read more →