Strategies are presented for overcoming three common inservice problems regarding mainstreaming: perceived need for inservice by educators and policymakers versus limited funding available; perceived need for inservice for mainstreaming versus competing community priorities; and stated need for inservice versus natural obstacles presented by staff…

Transactional analysis can help teachers build effective partnerships with parents of gifted and talented students by increasing awareness and skills when dealing with parents' concerns. Definitions and techniques for analyzing ego states are provided; ego state transactions (i.e., communications) are reviewed; and methods for identifying and…

Compared conflict resolution in male (N=130) and female (N=158) Quaker adults to the national study on family violence. Results generally showed no differences in the violence rates; however, Quaker fathers reported more acts of overall violence toward their children and Quaker sibling violence was higher than the national sample. (LLL)

This article discusses the role of the Board of Community Relations of the City of Toledo in helping families resolve their conflicts with social service agencies, utility companies, businesses, and other agencies. Available from: PS 504 969. (JMB)

By combining the resources of the recreation and physical education departments, student officials are involved in a course emphasizing the psychological aspects of officiating. (MM)

Author challenged Lawrence Kohlberg's theory of moral development with its conjoint moral standards. One's knowledge of the principle of moral justice, he said, does not offer him directives for dealing with specific moral conflicts. (Editor/RK)

Results of a simulated collective bargaining game showed that participants anticipating voluntary arbitration set higher goals and made more demanding opening bids than did participants anticipating other types of third-party intervention. (Available from the American Psychological Association, Inc., 1200 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, DC…

Describes a general conceptual framework for the study of cognitive conflicts, an experimental paradigm for the analysis of such conflicts, and reviews the results of a series of experiments conducted with the paradigm. Available from American Psychological Association, Inc., 1200 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036, single copy…

The preventive maintenance of human relations is often giving an employee a chance to air his grievance. (Author/MLF)

These guidelines were developed by a national working group seminar hosted by the FIPSE-funded Conflict Management in Higher Education Resource Center. They provide a set of best-practices related to the establishment of conflict-handling services for colleges and universities. Seminar participants were carefully chose to represent faculty,…

This lesson plan, for grades 4 to 6 and up, incorporates the Dr. Seuss story about Sneetches to teach children about sources of prejudice. The lesson also can be used to incorporate writing in the social studies. Six writing prompts are included. (EH)

High performance teams allow conflict to surface and then work toward understanding and resolution. Often when teams are in conflict, they appear to be in chaos. What may be occurring is that the conflict has allowed the team to access new information, and what appears to be chaos is actually reorganization around a new perspective. Capitalizing…

Many teachers would like to counter what Deborah Tannen calls "The Argument Culture." They recognize that teaching students traditional principles of argument may perpetuate the kind of adversarial thinking that erupts all too often: in aggressive newspaper headlines, on confrontational television shows, in court rooms, and in school…

The Civic Journalism Interest Group section of the proceedings contains the following five papers: "A Tale of Two Cities: Do Small-Town Dailies Practice Public Journalism Without Knowing It?" (David Loomis); "Engaging the Literature: A Civic Approach" (Kathryn B. Campbell); "Resolving Public Conflict: Civic Journalism and…

Conflict ranges from minor squabbles to dysfunctional relationships to all-out war. At its core, conflict is disharmony, dissension, division, and discord between people, interests, or ideas. Managing conflict is important in many environments and is the key topic of this guidebook. Examples and steps are presented that allow employees and…