Conflict Resolution Education - National Criminal Justice Reference ...

Type of Material: Curriculum and teaching guide,
and student handouts.
Cost: $35.
Creative Conflict Resolution: More than 200 Activities
for Keeping Peace in the Classroom. 1984. William J.
Kreidler, GoodYear Books, Scott Foresman and
Company, 1900 East Lake Avenue, Glenview, IL
60025. NCJ 160369.
Phone: 800–628–4480
Audience: Grades K–6.
Focus: To teach conflict resolution techniques.
Key Teaching Strategies: Discussion, example,
activity, and worksheet.
Type of Material: Resource and workbook.
Cost: $12.95.
Creative Controversy: Intellectual Challenge in the
Classroom. 1987, 1992, 1995. David W. Johnson
and Roger T. Johnson, Interaction Book Company,
7208 Cornelia Drive, Edina, MN 55435.
Phone: 612–831–9500
Audience: Grades K–12 and adults.
Focus: To increase students’ motivation to learn,
academic achievement, creative thinking, and higher
level reasoning. Students research a position, present
it persuasively, try to refute the opposing position,
and synthesize the two positions into their
“best reasoned judgment.”
Key Teaching Strategies: Experiential/cooperative
learning, simulations, role-playing, and perspective
taking.
Type of Material: Book, video, and audiocassette.
Cost: Book, $25; video, $25; audiocassette, $10.
Elementary Perspectives: Teaching Concepts of
Peace and Conflict. 1990. William J. Kreidler, Educators
for Social Responsibility, 23 Garden Street,
Cambridge, MA 02138. NCJ 160426.
Phone: 800–370–2515
Audience: K–6 educators.
Focus: To help students acquire the concrete
cooperative and conflict resolution skills needed
to become caring and socially responsible citizens.
Contains more than 80 activities designed to help
teachers and students define peace, explore justice,
and learn the value of conflict and its resolution.
Key Teaching Strategies: Role-playing, songs,
writing, discussions, and cooperative activities.
B–14
Type of Material: Curriculum.
Cost: $28.
The Friendly Classroom for a Small Planet: A Handbook
on Creative Approaches to Living and Problem
Solving for Children. 1988. Priscilla Prutzman, Lee
Stern, M. Lenard Burger, and Gretchen Bodenhamer,
Children’s Creative Response to Conflict, P.O. Box
271, Nyack, NY 10960. NCJ 160383.
Phone: 914–353–1796
Audience: Grades pre-K through 6.
Focus: To teach conflict resolution skills to those
who work with young people.
Key Teaching Strategies: Experiential activities,
including role-playing and small-group work.
Type of Material: Handbook.
Cost: $14.95.
Making Choices about Conflict, Security, and Peacemaking—Part
I: Personal Perspectives. 1994. Carol
Miller-Lieber, Educators for Social Responsibility,
23 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.
NCJ 160430.
Phone: 800–370–2515
Audience: Grades 9–12.
Focus: To explore with high school students the
nature of conflict and its relation to public policy;
to build a “conflict toolbox” to help students resolve
their conflicts without resorting to violence; and
to provide practical classroom management tools.
Key Teaching Strategies: Hands-on activities,
role-playing, group brainstorming, innovative
projects, and problem-solving activities.
Type of Material: Curriculum.
Cost: $25.
Peacemaking Made Practical: A Conflict Management
Curriculum for the Elementary School. 1991.
Elizabeth Loescher, The Conflict Center, 2626
Osceola Street, Denver, CO 80212.
Phone: 303–433–4983
Audience: Grades pre-K through 6.
Focus: To reduce levels of physical, verbal, and
emotional violence by raising students’ awareness
of conflict in our lives and teaching practical ways
to make it productive.
Key Teaching Strategies: Modified lecture, group
discussions, role-playing, written exercises, and
games.