The Developmental Process of Positive Attitudes and Mutual Respect: A Multicultural Approach to Advocating School Safety (Studies in World Peace)

Professionals across several different disciplines help create new paradigms for positive educational change through various teaching strategies, theoretical approaches, and leadership models. They describe ways parents, educators, and others can overcome negative attitudes and actions, particularly the manifestation of violence in schools, and tell how to create a positive environment and a nurturing atmosphere. They touch on areas including the political power of poetry, positive classroom management, gender equity, and children's definitions of peace. Lacks a subject Index.