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Preventing violence in schools : a challenge to American democracy

Author: Joan N Burstyn; et al
Publisher: Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2001.
Edition/Format:   Book   Archival Material : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book, Archival Material
All Authors / Contributors: Joan N Burstyn; et al
ISBN: 0805837345 9780805837346 0805837337 9780805837339
OCLC Number: 44732380
Description: xiv, 249 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Violence and its prevention: a challenge for schools / Joan N. Burstyn --
Part one: The social context of violence in schools. What is violent about "school violence"? The nature of violence in a city high school / Ronnie Casella --
The importance of ethnography in understanding violence in schools / Kimberly M. Williams --
Resisting dominance? The study of marginalized masculinity and its construction within high school walls / Geoff Bender --
Someone is screaming / short story by Howard W. Gordon, followed by Joan N. Burstyn's account of an interview with the author --
Frontin' it: schooling, violence, and relationships in the 'hood / Kimberly M. Williams --
Interrupting "good" girlness: sexuality, education, and the prevention of violence against women / Kristen V. Luschen --
Part two: appraising strategies to counter school violence. Involving the whole school in violence prevention / Joan N. Burstyn, Rebecca Stevens --
The cultural foundations of peer mediation: beyond a behaviorist model of urban school conflict / Ronnie Casella --
Peer mediation: an examination of a school district's training program for educators / Rebecca Stevens --
What derails peer mediation? / Kimberly M. Williams --
Reaching troubled teens through a literacy tutoring project / Domingo P. Guerra, Joan N. Burstyn --
The challenge for schools: to prevent violence while nurturing democracy / Joan N. Burstyn.
Responsibility: Joan N. Burstyn ... [et al.].
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