Creating the Peaceable School: A comprehensive Program for Teaching Conflict Resolution (Student Manual)

For use with upper elementary and middle school students.Imagine a school or classroom where learners manage and resolve their own conflicts, where students and teachers cooperate, where diversity is celebrated, where feelings are expressed in ways that are neither aggressive nor destructive, where responsibility is the norm.Creating the Peaceable School presents a workable plan for achieving this vision. Through the conflict resolution strategies of mediation, negotiation, and group problem solving, students learn to recognize, manage, and resolve conflicts in peaceful, noncoercive ways.The Student Manual is a workbook that summarizes important concepts and contains a variety of forms and worksheets designed to reinforce learning.Richard J. Bodine is the author of 'Creating the Peaceable School: A comprehensive Program for Teaching Conflict Resolution (Student Manual)' with ISBN 9780878223503 and ISBN 0878223509.