Supporting Conflict Resolution through Structured Dramatic Play
Dr. Rekha S. Rajan writes about how she implemented a twenty-minute structured dramatic play into class time to encourage children to learn to solve conflicts on their own. She first does this by gaining insight on the children’s feelings with a personal story time. Each child tells a story that made them particularly sad, mad, upset, or happy. She then takes those experiences and creates a pre-determined scenario to which, the children will play different roles, share ideas, and come up with a solution.
Cognitive skills are advancing rapidly during the school-age years; and with cognitive development, children begin to recognize their own feelings while also understanding other
I found collaborative leadership, collaborative commutation, collaborative problem solving and collaborative conflict response the most valuable. Each piece is highly needed to create a successful team, for my own success. These are the ones that I found that pop up the most within in my own experience as a team member. I actually do a lot of collaborative work with other people in one of my artistic hobbies, where I team up with a bunch of people who do the same thing and we create a huge piece together. I've found that stepping up and making everyone do their parts by the deadline through commutation has often helped because a lot of the people I team up with would rather just work on what they needed to then step up more so they could concentrate on their work.
In my personal experience with different organizations and work environments, I have learned that conflict will never be eliminated and it will always exist in some form or another. I also learned that in many situations conflicts are created because of someone putting themselves before everyone else in the organization. Employees or team members maybe jealous of what others have or full of envy. Situations like this can exist in any organization including the fire service. No matter what sector of industry people are involved with, there will always be conflict among management, employees, and first responders. In my opinion, the most crucial elements to successful conflict resolution is compromise and understanding the needs of others.
In this paper I will discuss the conflict that is occurring at General Hospital, the conflict management styles that are evident in the case, and how General Hospital could have used teams to address the cost reductions needed to stay competitive. I will also describe how the CEO of General Hospital, Mike Hammer can us negotiation skills to get buy-in for the cost reductions and finally I will recommend a strategy for Hammer to resolve the problem.
Dramatic play permits children to fit the reality of the world into their own interests and knowledge. One of the purest forms of symbolic thought available to young children, dramatic play, contributes strongly to the intellectual development of children. Young children learn by imagining and doing and dramatic play allows them to do so. Dramatic play also promotes the use of speaking and listening skills. When children take part in this type of play, they practice words they have heard others say, and realize that they must listen to what other “players” say in order to be able to respond in an appropriate fashion. This style of play also promotes the development of social skills through interaction with others, peers or adults, which is a necessary factor in a child’s future.
There is no more challenging, nor rewarding job, than being a Catholic school principal. It can also be difficult at times, especially when students cross the line of good behavior, or even worse, when a parent crosses that line. During these first several years as principal, I have had the privilege of overseeing the faith formation and academic development of a wonderful group of young men and women. I have learned as much from them as I hope they have learned from me, and I am honored that God has called me to serve Him in this way.
For centuries, violence has been the go to way to settle conflicts, but it has also been very controversial throughout the years. While some say war is important in order to maintain our freedom, it is actually a very unnecessary and destructive way of settling conflicts because it kills so many innocent people and it hardly ever accomplishes anything for such a hefty price.
Conflicts through communication key concepts that I will outline are common ground and adjudication. Common ground is consists of attitudes, values, behaviors, expectations and goals the parties share and can serve as a basis for an agreement (Cahn & Abigail, 2014, p. 258), and adjudication; which is a neutral judge and jury in the legal system hear attorneys who prosecute of defend people and decide a case, which either party may later appeal. (Cahn & Abigail, 2014, p. 249). Though I did not have to experience these two concepts, however, my father had to experience this during his divorce process from his second marriage. The year was 1989 and I was a senior in high school ready for that final bell, so I could get ready for our final football practice before Friday’s game. Over the class loudspeaker was the principal excused himself to
The use of drama within children’s development is vital because it educates them whilst making things exciting
Conflict is a fact of life - for individuals, organizations, and societies. The costs of conflict are well-documented - high turnover, grievances and lawsuits, absenteeism, divorce, dysfunctional families, prejudice, fear. What many people don't realize is that well-managed conflict can actually be a force for positive change.
This book is an excellent educational source for any and every individual that cares and has a heart for children. Another one of the most appealing aspects of this book dealt with understanding how to help your child find his or her emotional intelligence through integration. This is, for the most part, necessary because the brain has two different hemispheres with two totally different functions. Another reason why children have such a difficult time communicating with others is because their brain is constantly growing and developing until they reach their mid-twenties.” (Bryson & Siegel, 2011, pg.
During the middle and late childhood stage there is an increase of social knowledge and understanding of intricate emotions of self and
Alper, S., Tjosvold, D., & Law, K. S. (2000). Conflict management, efficacy, and performance in organizational teams. Personnel Psychology, 53(3), 625-642. This study looked at the management of conflict and linked it empirically with organizational team and efficacy research. There were sixty-one teams with nearly 500 employees studied, all belonging to a leading manufacturer of electronic products. A structural equation analysis was used to show that a cooperative approach to conflict is more effective than a competitive approach to same. Making use of autonomy can also make a person or a team more productive.
Mediation is one of the many ways of conflict resolution. In order to use mediation efficiently, there are principles and techniques of mediation that should be used in order to settle a dispute. Opposing lawyers and their clients, for example, can choose to apply some techniques and principles of mediation to solve a problem without using a mediator.
In trying to resolve the conflict between Reece and Patel, Edwards used an avoidance strategy. Instead of speaking directly about the root causes, or sources, of the conflict, Edwards focused on the behaviors and treated Reece and Patel like children. Edwards scolded them, and sent them off without bothering to find out what was bothering the two. Of course, this type of conflict resolution is ineffective because it fails to address the underlying issues. As Anderson (n.d.) points out, addressing the problem is key to conflict resolution. "When a conflict does happen, a manager needs to focus the conflicting parties on the issue and have them leave out any personal problems they may be having," (Anderson, n.d.).
Alternate dispute resolution or ADR (commonly called in Australia) is a procedure by which parties in dispute can settle their differences with third parties or any outside source other than the courts. It is a collective effort by which all the parties can settle disputes with or without any outside sources like litigation procedures or courts. In simple words it can be said ADR is a procedure to settle disputes without resorting to the use of litigation or courts. These procedures are generally less costly affair than courts and litigations and are also much more expeditious. ADR is now extensively being used around the world to settle land disputes and commercial disputes.