Rhetorical Strategies Part 1

ETHOS - credibility and ethics 

- Johannes Himmelreich (the author of this story) is a philosopher who works with engineers at Stanford's Center for Automotive Research
-  Diana Divecha - credible because she has a PHD in phycology and she's an assistant clinical professor at Yale child study center for emotional intelligence which makes her credible to talk about bullying


PATHOS - emotions and feelings

-Diana Divecha: "Schools with a positive climate foster healthy development, while a negative school climate is associated with higher rates of student bullying, aggression, victimization, and feeling unsafe."
- Diana Divecha: "A majority of teachers report that they feel unprepared to deal with classroom bullying. Some teachers bully students themselves, or show a lack of empathy toward children who are bullied."
- Diana Divecha: "Do leaders understand that uninterrupted, severe bullying can confer lifelong negative consequences on targets of bullies, bullies, and witnesses?"
- Diana Divecha: "For example, preschoolers are expelled from school at the highest rates of all, but the neurological hardware for their self-control is only just developing."

LOGOS - logic and reason 

- Diana Divecha: "A study of 36 first-grade teachers showed that when teachers were more emotionally supportive of students, children were less aggressive and had greater behavioral self-control, compared to the use of behavior management, which did not improve student self-control." 

KAIROS - timeliness

- Diana Divecha: "So a school's specific issues can be addressed, and the flavor of local cultures retained. School climate assessments can be completed periodically to track the impact of improvements."









                  

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