NCJ Number
181080
Journal
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Volume: 567 Issue: Special Issue Dated: January 2000 Pages: 186-197
Editor(s)
Alan W. Heston
Date Published
2000
Length
12 pages
Annotation
After some three decades in education as student, teacher, and administrator, the author was widowed when a distressed graduate student murdered her husband in his university office.
Abstract
The author's self-designed recovery process included training in the principles of nonviolence and conflict resolution. She believes that these principles offer crucial curricular material for both analytical study and violence prevention schools and also offer a balanced way to live. With respect to balanced living and the twin dilemmas of school violence and recovery, the author suggests that rational and emotional mental processes, private and public selves, individual and community goals, and micro-community and macro-community structures be rethought. In addition to the principle of nonviolence, the author relies on a race relations scholar for notions of community and several feminist thinkers for an analysis of ethics. 11 references