When I began teaching straight out of college, I had much experience with children, but my degree was in political science. People used to ask me how my BA was useful in teaching nursery school, to which I often replied, I do a lot of conflict resolution. Since then Ive received my Masters degree in Education, and my Political Science degree has been relegated to education for educations sake, but conflict resolution remains a huge chunk of my professional life. Children have conflicts, and one of the important tasks of childhood is learning how to manage conflict successfully.
Ideally, education in conflict resolution begins at pre-school age or even earlier. With appropriate help from parents, even pre-verbal children can benefit. In order for conflict resolution education to work with children this young, it needs to be offered within an authentic context. Information that is relevant and meaningful is always learned more easily and understood more deeply. For young children who are not yet thinking abstractly this cannot be overstated. That is why conflict resolution programs that emphasize rehearsal of various strategies of deescalating conflict can be...
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