Joan N. Burstyn, Geoff Bender, Ronnie Casella, Howard W. Gordon, Domingo P. Guerra

Preventing Violence in Schools (eBook, ePUB)

A Challenge To American Democracy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

School violence is a burning issue these days. This book provides an in-depth analysis of violence prevention programs and an assessment of their effectiveness, using data from observations, individual interviews, and focus groups, as well as published data from the schools. It is distinguished by its focus on the cultural and structural context of school violence and violence prevention efforts. Where most other researchers use quantitative measures, such as surveys, to assess the effectiveness of violence prevention programs, the authors of this book use qualitative research and ethnography to study the environment where such programs take place. Thus, this work--one of only a few ethnographic studies of violence prevention programs in schools--links previous quantitative research on the topic and critical ethnography. Preventing Violence in Schools: A Challenge to American Democracy:

*includes voices of school students, accused of practicing violence, who have been participants in violence prevention programs;
*analyzes a citywide peer mediation program (who benefits and who does not, who is mediated and who mediates, and what the implications of these findings may be);
*examines the kinds of violence recognized in schools and the ways schools themselves may perpetuate violence; and
*describes a violence prevention program for students at an alternative school.

Preventing Violence in Schools: A Challenge to American Democracy is highly relevant for students in courses on urban education, foundations of education, education and social policy, youth and the law, and qualitative research, and for teachers, administrators, and other professionals, such as school psychologists and guidance counselors, at the middle and high school levels.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135652760
• Artikelnr.: 38443376

Autorenporträt

Joan N. Burstyn, Geoff Bender, Ronnie Casella, Howard W. Gordon, Domingo P. Guerra

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface. J.N. Burstyn
Violence and Its Prevention: A Challenge for Schools. Part I: The Social Context of Violence in Schools.R. Casella
What Is Violent About "School Violence?" The Nature of Violence in a City High School. K.M. Williams
The Importance of Ethnography in Understanding Violence in Schools. G. Bender
Resisting Dominance? The Study of a Marginalized Masculinity and Its Construction Within High School Walls. H.W. Gordon
Someone Is Screaming: A Short Story. J.N. Burstyn
Account of an Interview With the Author. K.M. Williams
"Frontin' It": Schooling
Violence
and Relationships in the Hood. K.V. Luschen
Interrupting "Good" Girliness: Sexuality
Education
and the Prevention of Violence Against Women. Part II: Appraising Strategies to Counter School Violence.J.N. Burstyn
R. Stevens
Involving the Whole School in Violence Prevention. R. Casella
The Cultural Foundations of Peer Mediation: Beyond a Behaviorist Model of Urban School Conflict. R. Stevens
Peer Mediation: An Examination of a School District's Training Program for Educators. K.M. Williams
What Derails Peer Mediation? D.P. Guerra
J.N. Burstyn
Reaching Troubled Teens Through a Literacy Tutoring Project. J.N. Burstyn
The Challenge for Schools: To Prevent Violence While Nurturing Democracy.