Restoring Harmony: A Guide for Managing Conflicts in Schools

Supplemental text for classroom management and school counseling courses. Core text for courses in conflict resolution. Provides a framework and very concrete practical guidance for facilitating conflict management in the schools. Aimed at teachers and counselors, this supplemental text for classroom management and school counseling courses examines a wide range of conflicts and violence in schools (e.g. student--student, teacher--student, parent--teacher, teacher--counselor, etc.) It looks at the factors that give rise to conflict, provides a framework and very concrete, practical guidance for facilitating conflict management in the schools. Extensive scenarios and examples help equip future and practicing teachers with pertinent and specific ways to manage and think about the increasing conflict in America's schools.