Instructional Media and Technology Service
Monthly Curriculum Resources
~ A Season for Peace & Conflict Resolution ~
December 2003
Sources Available at Wayne RESA’s Instructional Media and Technology Services:
Please note:
· Items listed in the Duplicating Collection do not circulate. Contact RESA TV at 734-334-1437 to make an appointment to duplicate. Free to those who copy the tapes themselves, $10 per tape if RESA makes the copies.
· Items listed in the Circulating Collection are available to check out. Call the circulation desk at 734-334-1595.
· Items listed in the Reference or Periodical Collection are available to use in the Resource Center only.
Johnson, David W. Reducing School Violence Through Conflict Resolution. (1995). Alexandria, Va.: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Contents of this book include: increasing violence: a concern for schools, violence prevention, conflict resolution, teaching students to negotiate, etc. (Circulating collection LB3013.3.J65).
Porro, Barbara. Talk It Out: Conflict Resolution in the Elementary Classroom. (1996). Alexandria, Va.: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. This book is appropriate for in-service use. It includes steps to establish the Talk It Out program in an elementary setting, includes resources (forms, scripts, lesson plans, etc.), and bibliographical references. (Circulating collection LB3013.P636).
University of Georgia. Conflict Resolution. (1998). Video recording. This 240 minute video cassette is appropriate for in-service use, and covers conflict management through mediation. (Circulating collection LB3013.3.C665).
Video Streaming Resources:
Below is a sample of videos available for licensed Wayne County users, these videos are available at: http://streaming.resa.net. For help accessing additional videos, contact Anupam Chugh at chugha@resa.net
Let's
Get Along!: How Fights Start and Stop
Clarence and Clacker Duck and friends show how to get into and out of conflict
situations. Kids learn how to manage anger and disagreement and work toward
making peace in every conflict situation. Includes Michigan Standards
correlations, blackline masters, and teachers’ guides. Grades: Gr. 1 - Gr.
4 Runtime: 12:07 ©1996 United Learning
Getting Along
Presented by teens, this program will give young people the skills to resolve
conflicts and adopt the model to their own lifestyle. The mechanics of a fight
and ways to avoid senseless confrontation are demonstrated. How to express
needs, identify a problem, and use good listening skills are presented by four
teens in a scenario involving a successfully used conflict resolution model.
Includes Michigan Standards correlations. Grades: Gr. 7 - Gr. 12 Runtime:
13:57 ©1994 United Learning
Let's
Get Along: Nice Things Kids Can Do
A dramatized and "acted out" presentation about conflict resolution. Clarence
and Clacker Duck and three real-life children dramatize everyday situations
involving conflicts and demonstrate various ways to solve them. Includes
Michigan Standards correlations, blackline masters, and teachers’ guides.
Grades: Gr. 1 - Gr. 4 Runtime: 13:37 ©1996 United Learning
Peacemakers: Pros in Conflict
This program is a comprehensive course in peer mediation. Students involved in
conflict resolution and student mediation will greatly benefit from this
program. The mediation process is taught in three easy steps with actual
upper-elementary mediators modeling the process. Includes Michigan Standards
correlations, blackline masters, and teachers’ guides. Grades: Gr. 4 - Gr.
6 Runtime: 15:38 ©1995 United Learning
Web Resources:
AskERIC
Conflict Resolution:
(Online). Available: http://askeric.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi/Resources/Subjects/Character_Education/Conflict_Resolution.html (10 November, 2003). Includes links to additional Internet sites and organizations related to conflict resolution in education.
Peace Begins with You:
(Online). Available: http://askeric.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Interdisciplinary/INT0053.html (10 November, 2003). A lesson plan designed for grades 2 – 6.
Educators for Social Responsibility:
(Online). Available: http://www.esrmetro.org/ (10 November, 2003). This non-profit organization seeks to help people learn to solve conflicts nonviolently and work together to build a more just and peaceful society. Links to teacher resources includes both free and fee based items.
INCORE: Conflict Data Service
(Online). Available: http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/cds/countries/ (10 November, 2003). This site provides a guide to Internet sources on conflict and ethnicity issues in countries around the world. Select a country from the map or a list, and access primary sources, e-mail lists and newsgroups, special news reports, governmental and non-governmental organizations, academic sources, and various other information sources about conflict within that specific country.
Nobel e-Museum:
(Online). Available: http://www.nobel.se/peace/index.html (10 November, 2003). This site links to biographical information on all Nobel Prize Laureates in Peace, articles written by Laureates, and educational resources.
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – Waging Peace.org
(Online). Available: http://www.wagingpeace.org/menu/issues/peace-&-war/index.htm#peace-education (10 November, 2003). Click on the links to “Peace Education” and “Youth and Peace” to access resources for teaching resources.
PBS: America Responds Classroom Resources:
(Online). Available: http://www.pbs.org/americaresponds/educators.html (10 November, 2003). Lesson plans, linked to national standards, for grades K-12 that help educators teach students about peace, tolerance, war, patriotism, and other related issues.
Peace Corps Kids World:
(Online). Available: http://www.peacecorps.gov/kids/ (11 November, 2003). This site, target to younger students, presents the background of the Peace Corps, things students can do to change the world, and information about various countries where the Peace Corps currently works.
Peace Corps World Wise Schools:
(Online). Available: http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/educators/index.html (10 November, 2003). This site provides resources for educators, including lesson plans for teaching about culture, connect your class to a current Peace Corps Volunteer, lesson plans for service learning, countries and cultures, and stories, letters, and other primary sources.
Teaching Tolerance:
(Online). Available: http://www.tolerance.org/teach/ (11 November, 2003). Links for teachers, parents, teens and kids.
TeacherVision Peace and International Relations:
(Online). Available: http://www.teachervision.fen.com/tv/tvsearch/lowest_grade=99&highest_grade=112&term=211100000000&mode=-bread (10 November, 2003). This site presents lesson plans for K – 12 grade that cover peace and international relations.
United Nations Peace Education:
(Online). Available: http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/peace/index.asp (11 November, 2003). Click on the “Peace Education” link in the center of the homepage to access resources on the theory of peace education, and curriculum resources including lesson plans. For students age 8 and up.
United States Institute of Peace – For the Classroom:
(Online). Available: http://www.usip.org/class/index.html (11 November, 2003). This site has links to the Institute’s collection of educational materials developed for classroom use, including simulations and teaching guides.
World Peace – Lesson plans and Resources:
(Online). Available: http://worldpeace.org.au/schools/lesson_plans.asp (11 November, 2003). This site has a series of fee lesson plans designed for various age groups, and a semester long curriculum project for older students.
Related Articles:
These articles are available full text through the ERIC database (www.mel.org).
Harris, I. (1996). Peace education in an Urban school district in the United States. Peabody Journal of Education, v. 71, no. 3, p. 63-83. Presents a case study of efforts by teachers in a large urban school district in Wisconsin to address problems of student violence by using peace-education strategies, describing district wide initiatives, summarizing curricular reforms at the elementary and secondary levels, and explaining how urban teachers are teaching alternative dispute-resolution techniques.
Harris, I. (2000). Peace-building responses to school violence. NASSP Bulletin, v. 84, no 614, p. 5-24. Current efforts to create safe schools concentrate on peace-keeping and peace-making strategies that may enforce mutual mistrust and marginalize “suspicious” persons. Peace building tries to build communities by providing nonviolent ways to empower students, model appropriate behaviors, and manage conflicts.
McHenry, I. (2000). Conflict in schools: Fertile ground for moral growth. Phi Delta Kappan, v. 82, no. 3, p. 223-27. A study of 24 Friends high schools nationwide concluded that conflict I the cruciform spawning individual moral growth and the primary locus for moral growth in adolescents. Instead of avoiding conflict, educators must engage students in responses to conflict that are nonviolent, creative, and peace-promoting.
Moffett, C.A. (2002). Voices from the field: Using Peace Corps literature. Educational Leadership, v60, no.2, p. 26-30. This article describes the use of “Voices from the Field: Reading and Writing about the World, Ourselves, and Others,” a curriculum resource containing personal narratives by returning Peace Corps volunteers and lesson plans for teaching students to develop their reading and writing skills within a global perspective and to understand and appreciate certain common values despite cultural differences.
Perkins-Gough, D., Lindfors, S., Ernst, D. (2002). A curriculum for peace: A conversation with Sir John Daniel. Educational Leadership, v. 60, no. 2, p. 14-17. An interview with Sir John Daniel, Assistant Director-General for Education of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Discusses UNESCO’s role in promoting a peace curriculum in schools throughout the world.
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