Linda Lantieri - Waging Peace in Our Schools

Waging Peace in Our Schools — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work

Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "Waging Peace in Our Schools" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Georgia Tahoma Arial Verdana

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

1234567...77

---

title	:	Waging Peace in Our Schools
author	:	Lantieri, Linda.; Patti, Janet.
publisher	:	Beacon Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0807031178
print isbn13	:	9780807031179
ebook isbn13	:	9780807031346
language	:	English
subject	School violence--United States--Prevention, Classroom management--United States, Conflict management--United States, Peace--Study and teaching--United States.
publication date	:	1996
lcc	:	LB3013.3.L36 1996eb
ddc	:	371.5
subject	:	School violence--United States--Prevention, Classroom management--United States, Conflict management--United States, Peace--Study and teaching--United States.

Page iii Waging Peace in Our Schools Linda Lantieri and Janet Patti WITH A FOREWORD BY MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN Beacon Press Boston

Page iv Disclaimer: Some images in the original version of the book are not available for inclusion in the netLibrary eBook. Beacon Press 25 Beacon Street Boston, Massachusetts 02108-2892 Beacon Press books are published under the auspices of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. 1996 by Linda Lantieri and Janet Patti All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 02 01 00 8 7 6 5 4 Text design by Susan Hochbaum Composition by Wilsted & Taylor Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lantieri, Linda. Waging peace in our schools / Linda Lantieri and Janet Patti : with a foreword by Marian Wright Edelman. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-8070-3116-X (cloth) ISBN 0-8070-3117-8 (paper) 1. School violenceUnited StatesPrevention. 2. Classroom managementUnited States. 3. Conflict managementUnited States. 4. PeaceStudy and teachingUnited States. I. Patti, Janet. II. Title. LB3013.3.L36 1996 371.5dc20 96-12160

Page v To the memory of Patrick F. Daly, principal of one of the first schools that gave birth to our dream. And to all the young people, parents, teachers, and administrators who are passionately and courageously waging peace in our schools.

Page vii CONTENTS Foreword by Marian Wright Edelman ix Acknowledgments xiii Preface xv I A New Vision 1 A New Vision of Education 3 2 The Peaceable Classroom 21 II The Core Curriculum 3 How to Wage Peace: The Skills of Conflict Resolution 51 4 Valuing Diversity: Creating Inclusive Schools and Communities 89 III New Roles and New Tasks 5 The Role of the Teacher in the Peaceable Classroom 117 6 Mediation in the Schools 136 7 Signs of Hope 153 8 Peace in the Family 180

Page viii IV Building on the Past for the Future 9 RCCP's Beginnings 203 10 Creating Peaceable Schools 223 11 Beyond the Schoolyard: Schools and Communities Working Together 240 Notes 255 For More Information 265

Page ix FOREWORD By Marian Wright Edelman President, the Children's Defense Fund In 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., asked our nation a prescient, urgent, and timely question: Where do we go from herechaos or community? Since Dr. King's death, over one million Americans have been killed violently here at home, including tens of thousands of children. Almost seventeen million children have been born out of wedlock, thirteen million to teenage mothers. And at least sixteen million babies have been born into poverty. In America a child is reported abused or neglected every eleven seconds, is born into poverty every thirty-two seconds, is born to a teen mother every sixty-two seconds, is arrested for a violent crime every four minutes, and is killed by guns every ninety-eight minutes. Behind these shameful numbers are small individual faces and individuals' feelings. We must stop this suffering. Change must come from the highest levels of government but it must also come from our communities, communities that sometimes seem to have forgotten too much of what we have always known is important. Never before have we exposed children so early and relentlessly to cultural messages glamorizing violence, sex, material possessions, and the use of alcohol and tobacco with so few mediating influences from responsible

Next page

1234567...77

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Georgia Tahoma Arial Verdana

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

Similar books «Waging Peace in Our Schools»

Look at similar books to Waging Peace in Our Schools. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.

Robert D. Jones

Pursuing Peace: A Christian Guide to Handling Our Conflicts

Clark McKown

Assessing Students Social and Emotional Learning: A Guide to Meaningful Measurement

Stephanie Phetsamay Stobbe

Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding in Laos: Perspective for Todays World

Adam Saenz

The EQ Intervention: Shaping a Self-Aware Generation Through Social and Emotional Learning

Gerard Shaw

7 Winning Conflict Resolution Techniques: Master Nonviolent and Effective Communication Skills to Resolve Everyday Conflicts in the Workplace, Relationships, Marriage and Crucial Conversations

Anna-Lisa Mackey

The Social Emotional Classroom: A New Way to Nurture Students and Understand the Brain

Herbert C. Kelman

Resolving Deep-Rooted Conflicts: Essays on the Theory and Practice of Interactive Problem-Solving

Donna Lord Black

Essentials of Social Emotional Learning (SEL): The Complete Guide for Schools and Practitioners

Johnson

Resolving Inner Conflict: The Most Effective, Permanent Solution To Finally Overcome Inner Conflict For Life (internal conflict, deal with internal conflict, ... conflict resolution, emotional

Michelle L Trujillo

Start with the Heart: Igniting Hope in Schools Through Social and Emotional Learning

Zembylas

Emotion and traumatic conflict : reclaiming healing in education

Richard E. Rubenstein

Resolving Structural Conflicts: How Violent Systems Can Be Transformed

Discussion, reviews of the book Waging Peace in Our Schools and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.