| Description |
xiv, 249 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. Violence and Its Prevention: A Challenge for Schools / Joan N. Burstyn -- 2. What Is Violent About "School Violence"? The Nature of Violence in a City High School / Ronnie Casella -- 3. The Importance of Ethnography in Understanding Violence in Schools / Kimberly M. Williams -- 4. Resisting Dominance? The Study of a Marginalized Masculinity and Its Construction Within High School Walls / Geoff Bender -- 5. Someone Is Screaming / Howard W. Gordon and Joan N. Burstyn -- 6. "Frontin' It": Schooling, Violence, and Relationships in the 'Hood / Kimberly M. Williams -- 7. Interrupting "Good" Girlness: Sexuality, Education, and the Prevention of Violence Against Women / Kristen V. Luschen -- 8. Involving the Whole School in Violence Prevention / Joan N. Burstyn and Rebecca Stevens -- 9. The Cultural Foundations of Peer Mediation: Beyond a Behaviorist Model of Urban School Conflict / Ronnie Casella -- 10. Peer Mediation: An Examination of a School District's Training Program for Educators / Rebecca Stevens -- 11. What Derails Peer Mediation? / Kimberly M. Williams -- 12. Reaching Troubled Teens Through a Literacy Tutoring Project / Domingo P. Guerra and Joan N. Burstyn -- 13. The Challenge for Schools: To Prevent Violence While Nurturing Democracy / Joan N. Burstyn |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
School violence -- United States -- Prevention.
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| Author |
Burstyn, Joan N.
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| LC no. |
00062252 |
| ISBN |
0805837337 (cloth. : alk. paper) |
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0805837345 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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