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Conflict Resolution Communication : Patterns Promoting Peaceful Schools

Name: Conflict Resolution Communication : Patterns Promoting Peaceful Schools
Author: Melinda Lincoln
ISBN: 9780810842649

by Melinda Lincoln

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Overview

Violence in schools, random shootings, acts of intimidation, and senseless hate crimes are behaviors with serious and sometimes deadly consequences. By successfully blending the processes of communication and mediation practices, one can productively lessen routine strife and learn new patterns of behavior to solve differences without violence. Conflict Resolution Communication: Patterns Promoting Peaceful Schools provides effective alternatives and successful options to help students, teachers, parents, educators, and professionals learn to deal with conflicts, difference, and diversity in schools peacefully.

About the Author, Melinda Lincoln

Melinda Lincoln is professor of communication at George Mason University, Virginia, an educational mediation coordinator, and a senior English teacher for the Fairfax (VA) County Public Schools.

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Education Review

Melinda Lincoln is an expert in the fields of communication and mediation; she has combined theories from both fields in an intelligent, clear and concise manner...this book would be useful for individuals who are thinking about implementing a peer mediation program or who are considering alternate methods of conflict resolution.

Booknews

Provides school counselors and teachers with alternative practices for conflict resolution that involve listening and hearing exercises, improvisations, role-playing scenarios, and verbal narratives. Lincoln (communication, George Mason University) describes the narrative mediation approach to problem solving, the role of non- verbal cues, the causes and effects of bullying, and communication techniques for students. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)