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Peer Teaching as a Strategy for Conflict Management and Student Re-Engagement in Schools
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Burton, Bruce – Australian Educational Researcher, 2012
This article reports on a major action research program that experimented with the use of cross-age peer teaching in schools to assist teachers to manage conflict issues in their classrooms, and to re-engage disaffected students in learning. The research, which was conducted in a range of elementary and secondary schools in Australia, was part of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conflict Resolution, Peer Teaching, Action Research
Using Action Research to Teach Students to Manage Team Learning and Improve Teamwork Satisfaction
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Scott-Ladd, Brenda; Chan, Christopher C. A. – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2008
This article reports on a study investigating strategies that students can use to develop skills in managing team learning. Two groups of second-year management students participated in a semester-long action research project over two semesters. The students were educated on team development, team processes and conflict management and how to…
Descriptors: Action Research, Ownership, Conflict Resolution, Student Participation
Effectiveness of a Classroom Chemistry Demonstration Using the Cognitive Conflict Strategy
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Baddock, Maree; Bucat, Robert – International Journal of Science Education, 2008
In an action research study, 66 students from Year 11 in an Australian school were shown the colour of methyl violet indicator in some hydrochloric acid solutions, and then in an acetic acid solution. The intent was to create a cognitive conflict, resolution of which would lead to an understanding of the concept "weak acid". Student…
Descriptors: Action Research, Conflict, Chemistry, Science Instruction
Developing a Peace Education Curriculum for Vietnamese Primary Schools: A Case Study of Participatory Action Research in Cross-Cultural Design
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Conley Tyler, Melissa H.; Bretherton, Diane; Halafoff, Anna; Nietschke, Yung – Journal of Research in International Education, 2008
In 2003, the International Conflict Resolution Centre at the University of Melbourne, Australia, produced a primary school teaching manual for UNESCO Vietnam. The finished manual included lesson plans and materials for a five year, 50 lesson peace education course. The manual is one of the first examples of a systematic core national curriculum in…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Design, Action Research
Empowering Students to Handle Conflicts through the Use of Drama
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Malm, Birgitte; Lofgren, Horst – Journal of Peace Education, 2007
DRACON (DRAma for CONflict management) is an interdisciplinary and comparative action research project aimed at improving conflict handling among adolescent schoolchildren through the use of educational drama. The main purpose of our research has been to develop an integrated programme using conflict management as the theory and practice, and…
Descriptors: Action Research, Conflict, Diaries, Conflict Resolution
Acting Against Conflict and Bullying. The Brisbane Dracon Project 1996-2004--Emergent Findings and Outcomes
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O'Toole, John; Burton, Bruce – Research in Drama Education, 2005
In 1996, the authors were invited to join an international research project, DRACON (=DRAma+CONflict), into the use of drama for assisting conflict management in schools, with a particular initial brief to investigate the cultural components. The Brisbane DRACON project has been based at Griffith University in Brisbane, and has incorporated sites…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High Schools, Secondary School Students, Peer Teaching