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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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