Preventing violence in schools : a challenge to American democracy /
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| Imprint: | Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2001. |
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| Description: | xiv, 249 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4481824 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Violence and Its Prevention: A Challenge for Schools
- Part 1. The Social Context of Violence in Schools
- 2. What Is Violent About "School Violence"? The Nature of Violence in a City High School
- 3. The Importance of Ethnography in Understanding Violence in Schools
- 4. Resisting Dominance? The Study of a Marginalized Masculinity and Its Construction Within High School Walls
- 5. Someone Is Screaming
- 6. "Frontin' It": Schooling, Violence, and Relationships in the 'Hood
- 7. Interrupting "Good" Girlness: Sexuality, Education, and the Prevention of Violence Against Women
- Part 2. Appraising Strategies to Counter School Violence
- 8. Involving the Whole School in Violence Prevention
- 9. The Cultural Foundations of Peer Mediation: Beyond a Behaviorist Model of Urban School Conflict
- 10. Peer Mediation: An Examination of a School District's Training Program for Educators
- 11. What Derails Peer Mediation?
- 12. Reaching Troubled Teens Through a Literacy Tutoring Project
- 13. The Challenge for Schools: To Prevent Violence While Nurturing Democracy
- Authors
- Author Index
- Subject Index