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Preventing Violence in Schools - A Challenge To American Democracy (Paperback)
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Preventing Violence in Schools - A Challenge To American Democracy (Paperback)
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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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