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The Schoolyard as a Stage: Missing Cultural Clues in Symbolic Fighting

Investigates how social conflict was enacted at one racially diverse, urban middle school. Discusses symbolic fighting, the use of body language, the location of symbolic fighting, and symbolic fighting as a source of transformation, proposing to redefine the socializing role of social conflict in the lives of students and adults in schools. Concludes that school climate can dramatically improve when staff understand the socializing functions of choreographed fighting. (SM)

• Author/Creator: Arriaza, Gilberto
• Date Published: Spr
• Journal/Secondary Title: Multicultural Education
• Number: 3
• Volume: 10
• Year: 2003

This resource is cataloged under:

• Network/channel: NCCRESt: People: Students
• Network/channel: NCCRESt: Practices: Diversity Practices
• Subject: Conflict Resolution
• Subject: Diversity (Student)
• Subject: Early Adolescents
• Subject: Middle Schools
• Subject: Middle School Students
• Subject: Social Influences

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