Thématique N°13

Staff Meetings: From Regulating Disorder within Schools to Citizen Apprenticeships, by Phillippe Haeberli

Summary

Violence is an issue which has recently encompassed issues of incivility. In order to respond to the development in disorder within schools, an amount of time is taken out of the school schedule by a large number of primary school teachers in Geneva. This provision for staff meetings, which calls on students to participate in school activities, is a privileged way of regulating interactions. Observations during staff meetings carried out in two primary school establishments showed a way of resolving conflicts resembling group mediation. Going beyond the socio-affective aspect which dominates this form of mediation involves introducing a cognitive reference. Suggested references include law and the concept of justice. The text provides further discussion of issues discussed in the previous Thematic and supplements these issues through empirical dat

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