Peace Education

A Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association



Newsletter    

March 1998, Volume 2, Issue 2

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

ANNUAL MEETING NEWS - MONTREAL

APRIL 19-23, 1999 

PEACE EDUCATION SIG SESSIONS AND BUSINESS MEETING 
 

Monday, April 19, 1999  4:05-5:35 p.m. 
Session #6.11 Hilton Hotel-St. Leonard Rm., Banquet Floor 

Topic: Critical Issues in Peace Education

    Panel: 
    Neil O. Hauser 
    Adam R. Gibbons
    Edyth J. Wheeler
    Daniel M. Kmitta

    Chair/Discussant: Blythe Hinitz  

SIG Business Meeting: 6:15-8:15 p.m. 
Hilton Hotel-Banquet Fl., St. Pierre.
 

Aline Stomfay-Stitz, Peace Education SIG Chair
Blythe Hinitz, Program Chair.

Guest Speaker: William Ayers, University of Illinois, Chicago
 
 

Tuesday, April 20: 2:15-2:45 p.m.
Session #17.36 -Hilton Hotel, Fountain B. Rm. Level F

Roundtables: Each will have a separate table.

  1. Alan McCully & Alan Smith: The Peace Process in Northern Ireland
  2. Alia Said Sheety; Curriculum and Peace in the Middle East
  3. Grace Feuerverger: Peacemaking in a Community of Moral Education

Wednesday, April 21, 1999  8:15-9:45 a.m.
Session 23.55 - Marriott Chateau, Terrasse. Plaza level

Interactive Symposium - Joint Session of the International Relations Committee and the Peace Education SIG

Title: Common Pathways to Peace through Education and International Relations

Participants: 
Harriet Fild,
Mount St. Vincent Univ., Halifax, Nova Scotia 
Magnus Haavelsrud,
Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Kathlelen Modrowski,
Long Island Univ., Southampton, NY 
Gavriel Salomon,
Univ. of Haifa, Israel; Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford Univ.
Alan Smith,
Univ. of Ulster, Northern Ireland

Discussant & Discussion Moderator: Aline Stomfay-Stitz,
Univ. of North Florida, Chair, Peace Education SIG
 

RELATED SESSIONS:

  I. Division C-Paper Presentation
 II. Conflict Resolution/Violence Prevention SIG
III. Cooperative Learning Theory SIG

IV. Conflict Resolution/Violence Prevention SIG
V. Cooperative Learning SIG & Conflict Resolution/Violence Prevention SIG
VI. Research in Social Studies Education SIG
VII. Cooperative Learning SIG & Conflict Resolution/Violence Prevention SIG
VIII. Research in Global Child Advocacy SIG
IX. Moral Development and Education SIG

X. Brain and Education SIG

Contributions from Candice Carter, SIG Member and Blythe Hinitz, Program Chair
 

 
I. Division C-Paper Presentation

Tuesday, April 20  8:15-10:15 a.m.
Session #11.49 Sheraton, Salon C, Level B

School Social Systems & Disruptive School Climate: Policy Implications for School Violence Prevention - Denise Long
 

 

II. Conflict Resolution/Violence Prevention SIG

Tuesday, April 20  10:35-12:05 p.m.
Session 13:43 - Sheraton-Salon 7, Level 3
 
Conflict Resolution/Violence Prevention SIG

Paper Presentations:

School Violence
- Karla Lewis

An Analysis of Language Maturity, Verbal Aggression - Marvenia Bosly

Normative Context of Bullying - Doris White

Effects of Modeling & Mediation Training on Primary Students’ Perceptions of Violence & Conflict Resolution - Yvetta George, Joel Keiter.

Elementary & Middle School Teachers’ Reasoning about School Violence -William Behre, Ron Astor, Heather Meyer

Infusing Anger Management into the Traditional Curricula - Kimberly Williams, Ranjit Sidhu

 

III. Cooperative Learning Theory SIG

Tuesday, April 20
2:15-3:45
Session #17.39 -
Sheraton, Salon 3, Level 2

Who’s Minding the Children?
- Donnie Lawrence

Elementary & Middle School Students’ Perceptions of Safety - Ron Astor

Early Intervention for the Prevention of Conduct Disorder - Peggy Hester, and others.

First Year Effects of Teaching All Students Conflict Resolution in a French Immersion Elementary School - Laurie Stevahn, Linda Munger, Kathy Kealey.

Implementation of a Peer Mediation Program in Six Rural Elementary & Middle Schools - Kathleen Curry, BethAnn Berliner, and others.

School-Based Peer Mediation - Stephen Guy, Riobert Sinclair
  

IV. Conflict Resolution/Violence Prevention SIG

Wednesday, April 21  9:35-10:15
Session #24.10 - Hilton Hotel, Fontaine B, Level F

Roundtables: 

Table 34: Conflict & Violence in Schools - Joan Burstyn and others.

Table 35: Perceptions of Violence in the Lives of Youth - Jennifer Obidah and others.

Table 36: Linking Social Development & Literacy, etc. - Collette Daiute and others.


V. Cooperative Learning SIG & Conflict Resolution/Violence Prevention SIG

Wednesday, April 21  12:25-1:55 
Session # #27.57 - Marriott, Maisonneuve C, 36th Fl

Paper Presentations:

Morphology of School Violence - Irene MacDonald

Lessons Learned from the School Crisis Experience - Sheryl Cohen

Impact of Violence on Girls - Faedra Weiss and others.

Boys Will Be Boys? - Christine Daley, etc.

Safe Schools - Peter Joong

Conflict Mediation at School - Candice Carter

Understanding Dropouts, etc. - William Smale

 

VI. Research in Social Studies Education SIG

Wednesday, April 21 12:25-1:55 
Session #27.66  Hilton Hotel Cote St. Luc, Banquet Fl.

Peer Conflict Resolution
- Kathy Bickmore.



VII. Cooperative Learning SIG & Conflict Resolution/Violence Prevention SIG

Thursday, April 22  1:15-1:55 
Session #39.05 - Hilton Hotel, Fontaine B, Level F

Table 11 - Beyond the Violent Behavior Statistics -  Alternative Educational Sites as Violence Prevention Strategies - Kimberly Williams, Ranjit Sidhu, Jeff Sprague
 
 

VIII. Research in Global Child Advocacy SIG

Thursday, April 22  4:05-6:05 
Session #42.58 - Marriott, Maisonneuve B, 36th Fl


Invited Presentations & Membership Meeting

Note: This is a new SIG established in 1998.

Historical Perspective - Ilene & Michael Berson, SIG Co-Chairs

Conceptualizing Child Advocacy - Joan Curcio and Patricia First

Bombs Ticking in India & Around the World - Carol Flake
  

IX. Moral Development and Education

Thursday, April 22  4:55 - 5:35 
Session #43.01 - Hilton Hotel, Fontaine B, Level F

Table 3 - Gender Differences in Student Responses to Violence Prevention Programming - Ted Reicken



X. Brain and Education SIG

Friday, April 22  3:05 - 3:45 
Session #54.05 - Hilton Hotel, Fontaine B, Level F

Roundtable

Table 23 - Cognitive Aspects of Stress during Hypothetical Conflict Resolution Tasks - Marie Simonsson
 

 

MISCELLANEOUS SESSIONS THAT MAY BE OF INTEREST: 
 

Wednesday, April 20  2:15 - 3:45 
Session #29.50 

Conflict Mediation at School - Candice Carter.

Thursday, April 21 4:05 - 4:45
Session #42.31- Social Studies Education

Roundtable 
Table No. 8 - Entwined Ideals: Democracy and Peace - Julie Weber


Thursday, April 21
4:05-6:05
Session # 42.22 

So That We Won’t Fight: Harmony & Conflict Avoidance - J. Szewczynski

Friday, April 23 10:35-12:05 
Session # 49.67 

Poster Session 21 - Role of Gender in Young Children’s Teasing & Bullying.  Gropper & Froschl.
 
 

CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS
 
 

We still need volunteers for the 2000 Annual Meeting Proposal Reviews

Contact: Blythe Hinitz-email: hinitz@tcnj.edu

Membership Renewals

Contact: Joanne Curran - email: curranjm@snyoneva.cc.oneonta.edu


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Contact: Candice Carter - email: ccarter@unf.edu 
or
Aline Stomfay-Stitz - Email: astomfay@unf.edu


Mentors for graduate students and new members

Contact: Aline Stomfay-Stitz. astomfay@unf.edu


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