Conciliation may be of particular value when those disagreements include issues of culture, gender or class bias. The MCI is a valuable tool which you may ask prospective mediators to complete as part of the mediator selection process. This is also a valuable tool for mediator self-examination. The new regulations for Mediation under IDEA '97. In Education by James Melamed, J.D. and John Reiman, Ph.D. A number of powerful concepts and specific techniques are reviewed for use in education to establish a collaborative discussion environment.
Education involves continuing relationships and multiple issues.
Competitive approaches to conflict resolution in education are dysfunctional. Our children can be best supported by the adults in their lives learning how to collaborate and constructively resolve conflict. J.D. One of the most common that they cannot communicate with each other. All of us have experienced, at one time or another, the frustration of feeling misunderstood and being unable to make ourselves understood by another person. Persons in dispute are provided opportunities to have their disagreements dealt with promptly.