This study investigated the process and the products of negotiation in the ethical conflicts of teaching, focusing on the ethical conflicts experienced by early education teachers. Participants included urban kindergarten and elementary school teachers from several Finnish public day care centers and schools. The study examined various categories…

This brief presents the assumptions underlying the approach taken by the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution, Teachers College, Columbia University, in creating a nonviolent school. It also provides specific program components that schools can implement. The approach is based on the recognition that violence is a function…

This paper discusses a program at Castlewood Elementary School (New York) specifically directed at helping parents develop and enhance their skills in resolving the conflicts they confront in their own lives and relationships. Currently there is no structured program in Castlewood School to teach students conflict resolution skills. The underlying…

The fact that interpersonal conflict and subsequent resolution are primarily social behaviors between groups of people often becomes obscured by cultural norms. Professional counselors routinely encounter conflict in their work with clients. This paper provides an introductory discussion on the psychocultural aspects of conflict to assist…

Safe schools, violence prevention, and conflict resolution are all major concerns in addressing barriers to learning. This quick training aid presents a brief set of resources to guide those providing an in-service training session on violence prevention in schools. The packet contains a brief introduction to the topic with key talking points,…

This briefing paper examines the role of attorneys, and to a lesser extent advocates, in special education mediation. It attempts to "mediate" the debate by adopting the structure of mediation. It begins with a background chapter offering a historical basis for conflict resolution in special education. It then examines the positions held by both…

A simulation game provides a highly versatile model suitable for use is economics, political science or sociology lessons, or in any situation in which conflict of groups or individual interests are being examined. (Author/KM)

An introductory and a negotiations exercise offer activities related to the choices offered to the participants in the American Revolution. The choices offered are discussed from the viewpoint of Roger Fisher, a law professor. (KM)

Describes a short course for law enforcement personnel on improving interpersonal communication. (CH)

Author believes that the application of the Decision-Making Model to the removal of "discrepancies" allows the teachers and other school agents to proceed with changes in an orderly and rational manner. (Author)

This paper is an attempt to show the difference in the course of treatment of two successive groups of university students which functioned significantly differently in the manner and degree to which they examined defenses and manifested transference problems. (Author)

After pointing out that the concept of competition lies at the roots of our economic system, the author points out that competition is not always a good thing. (Editor)

Opposition to the Vietnam war has been manifested both in university protest actions and in cross-section public opinion surveys. The protests and disenchantments of the two groups have sharply different characteristics--the findings of this study suggest a distinction between moral criticism of the goals and nature of the war and pragmatic…

Therapeutic techniques based on guided group interaction are being used widely in Kentucky institutions in the treatment of juvenile delinquents. The peer group plays a key role as the catalyst for change. (Author)

Describes the creation of a new language for the purpose of increasing participant's understanding of the nature of language. (MB)