When Children Murder Children

Reports on the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association, held in Montreal in 1999 and attracting over 12,000 participants. On the second night, the news broke about the school killings in Littleton, Colorado. Every subsequent session that he attended referred to these murders. Notes the calls for a more intensive look at the media that young people consume and how it impacts on their developing minds. A large dose of this material is arguably psychologically toxic. Explores the fact that young people live in a world that is not of their making. (Quotes from original text)