Greg McInerney discusses ‘Conflict in Education’ [educationmatters.ie]
- Published: 12 January 2010
As we enter the second decade of the new millennium, we are no nearer to resolving the numerous conflicts that occur continuously in our schools.
Indeed, as the young become more and more immersed in all things technological, interpersonal conflicts through mobile or web chat pages have created the phenomenon of the cyber bully. School managers and teacher unions(1) have admitted that young persons have not acquired the ability to resolve conflict themselves. Wilmot & Hocker(2) refers to this as “ineffective resolution of interpersonal disputes” and warns that this can be associated with depression and hopelessness.
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