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Zero tolerance provides zero learning
In today's culture where bullying and violence are on the rise, we know that children who are afraid or anxious are in no state of mind to learn. If you are serious about creating a safe school climate conducive to learning, this book will show you how. Written by counseling experts, Safe and Peaceful Schools provides a variety of research-based techniques to help students, school counselors, psychologists, administrators, and other educators develop conflict resolution skills that reduce the need for disciplinary action. Each chapter addresses a mode of practice for constructing peaceful interactions, including: Peer mediation; Narrative counseling; Circle conversations; Undercover anti-bullying teams; “Facing up to violence” groups; Restorative conferences
Included are vignettes, dialogues, sample activities, agendas, and charts. Conflict is inevitable. Teaching students how to deal with it constructively will help them learn the tools they need to succeed at school and in life.
Understanding Conflict in Schools
Understanding Conflict in Schools
What's in This Chapter?
- Conflict Is Normal
- Violence Is a Problem
- Zero Tolerance Does Not Work
- A Comprehensive Approach
- What Is Violence?
- Antecedents to Violence
- Preparation for Democracy
- Summary
Conflict Is Normal
Conflict is ordinary. That is the first thing that needs to be acknowledged. Even in the most homogeneous of schools, differences among students and teachers are always so nuanced that conflict is inevitable. In the pursuit of various agendas, people always bump into other people's agendas.
Schools are a microcosm of the rest of society. Gather together a group of adults and ask them whether they have ever experienced conflict, and you will meet with laughter. Of course they have. Everyone has. As generalizations go, this is a safe one to make.
Conflict is inevitable. It results ...
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