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