Child development theorists, researchers, and educators have long known that play is one of children's most valuable resources, vital to their social, emotional, and cognitive growth. Through play children make sense of the world around them and work through new experiences, ideas, and feelings. But in recent years, a host of social forces and…

Introduction: An understanding of legal, ethical, and cultural concerns and an ability to communicate when faced with clinical dilemmas are integral to the end of life decision-making process. Yet teaching practicing clinicians these important skills in addressing conflict situations is not strongly emphasized. Methods: A one-day interactive…

Due to mounting pressures to avoid offending individuals on the basis of demographic group membership, political correctness has begun to restrict student participation in our diversity courses. This restriction diminishes what can be learned from class dialogue, an important component of diversity instruction. This article offers a model of…

In this article, two in-service English teachers and two preservice English teachers, who participated in a shared mentoring relationship during the student-teaching semester, share their experiences, conflicts, and how they were resolved. The authors provide first-person narratives of all four teachers and suggestions for improving mentoring…

This booklet provides Idaho guidelines for the mediation process to resolve conflicts between parents and schools regarding the educational program for a special education student. After an outline of the mediation process, mediation is compared to the impartial due process hearing and the complaint investigation process. Principles of the process…

This document is the third in a series of biennial reports on the United States Institute of Peace. The Institute devotes itself to matters of international peace based on freedom and justice. Functioning as a nonideological educational resource for policymakers and officials, the Institute does not intervene directly in the formulation or conduct…

Increasing numbers of schools are implementing conflict resolution programs to help students use nonviolent strategies to deal with conflict. This paper outlines the six steps of the Vollmer-Drook Conflict Resolution Curriculum, designed for use with grades kindergarten through 8. An introduction describes the pilot project, conducted at the Falk…

In the opinion of decision-making scholars, conflict is a natural component of group decision-making. A new direction for conflict and group decision-making theory and research will help dispel the confusion as to the promotive or disruptive nature of disagreement in group decision-making. Conflict literature is replete with descriptions of the…

An experimental approach now being tried to resolve environmental conflicts is the use of the negotiation-mediation process. The role of the mediator and the nature of the mediation process as applied to environmental disputes are outlined. (BT)

Suggestions for teaching conflict management in tacit, implicit, and explicit communication environments. (CH)

Examples show that conflict can promote needed change, give the disenfranchised a vote, encourage the search for alternatives, and operate simultaneously with progress. (Author/MLF)

An initial test of a model of intraorganizational conflict is presented by examining conflicts among city management officials engaged in collective bargaining with unions in 228 cities. The results show that goal incompatibility and factors that provide the ability to interfere with goal attainment of others are significantly correlated with…

Despite a growing body of literature on the school superintendency, little is known about the role, influence, and satisfaction of district superintendents when school boards make compensation decisions for principals. This exploratory study, which reported findings from a sample of 215 Pennsylvania superintendents, attempted to identify and…

Several ways in which the speech event may constitute a frame for performing and interpreting a particular speech genre are illustrated in the Samoan "fono," a meeting of chiefs and orators. In this event, both the organization of verbal interaction and the particular kind of language used by participants is distinct from the…