NDLI: “Thank You for Making Me Write This.” Narrative Skills and the Management of Conflict in Urban Schools

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Author	Harris, Alexis R. Walton, Marsha D.
Copyright Year	2008
Abstract	We studied 364 narratives about personal experiences with conflict written by urban 4th, 5th, and 6th graders. Narratives were examined in terms of children’s narrative and perspective-taking skills and the responses to conflict they described. Several features of narrative were reliably coded, including level of violence described in the story, children’s descriptions of internal states, moral evaluations, and responses to conflict. Children described the use of communication as a response to conflict more than any other response. Qualitative analyses revealed a relationship between children’s response to conflict and their narrative skills, moral evaluations, and descriptions of emotion, intentions, and mental states. Children who reported the use of communication in response to conflict wrote stories containing very low levels of violence and also displayed attentiveness to others’ internal states and strong narrative form. In contrast, children whose narratives reported the use of retaliation in response to conflict were unlikely to report about internal states or to display strong narrative form. Recommendations are given for dealing with conflict in the classroom, for focusing on narrative skill development, and for creating a narrative culture within schools.
Starting Page	287
Ending Page	311
Page Count	25
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00420972
Journal	The Urban Review
Volume Number	41
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15731960
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2008-10-28
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Conflict resolution Middle childhood Narrative Sociology Education (general) Community and Environmental Psychology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Urban Studies Education

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