conflict management

Contains twenty essays in which various authors discuss the control and reduction of violence in U.S. schools, focusing on administration, pedagogical, behavior management, and other school-based interventions for dealing with aggressive students.

Contains photographs, illustrations, exercises, role-playing activities, handouts, homework sheets, and discussion guidelines for a curriculum that explores topics such as gangs, interracial tension, suicide, sexual harassment, and the social roots of violence.

Offers tips and strategies to help teachers and administrators deal with workplace conflicts and confrontations, including how to develop skills and confidence in handling conflict and how to avoid becoming either a victim or a villain.

Presents ten reproducible plays from around the world with related activities designed to teach second through fourth graders methods of conflict resolution.

Offers families practical suggestions and tools to help them effectively deal with the inevitable anger that arises in everyday family life.

Offers simple techniques for conflict resolution. Stresses the importance of effective communication, cooperation, and compromise, while at the same time affirming the positive attributes and skills of each child.