Ages 4-16
Peer Mediation: Finding a Way to Care
Judith M. Ferrera
In recent years, peer mediation programmes have been started in schools. What makes a programme effective enough to endure and become part of a school's culture?
This is the story of how one successful programme in an inner-city primary school was designed, implemented and maintained. Featuring the voices of the pupils who became mediators, learned to understand the mediation process, and helped shape the programme. Peer Mediation demonstrates the need to listen to pupils, observe their responses, and work with them to revise it when necessary and includes:
- strategies for implementing and maintaining a peer mediation programme
- case studies demonstrate what it can mean to adults and pupils who are part of a peer mediation programme
- suggestions for handling the problems that arise and changes that occur
- forms, checklists and standards for preparing and assessing peer mediation programmes
- a bibliography of mediation resources, a conflict resolution curriculum, and practical materials.
This will be a useful resource for guidance counsellors, teachers and administrators who wish to start a programme or gain insight into how to maintain an existing one.
1996 184pp paperback
978-1-57110-021-4
£19.99
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