1st Edition
Peer Relationships in Classroom Management Evidence and Interventions for Teaching
Peer Relationships in Classroom Management offers pragmatic, empirically validated guidance to teachers in training on issues pertaining to students’ interpersonal relationships. Concepts such as bullying, popularity, and online friendships are ubiquitous in today’s schools, but what kinds of scientific and pedagogical knowledge can support teachers navigating students’ complex lives? Using real-world examples and case studies, this book helps preservice educators to enhance their knowledge of classroom management by focusing on the interpersonal relationships in their schools. Each chapter includes an accessible approach to understanding the social motives in student’s peer interactions inside school, and how to best intervene when these social interactions become detrimental to learning or cause negative interpersonal interactions.
Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1 Overview: What are peer relationships in school?
Martin H. Jones
Chapter 2 Are peer relationships in classrooms helpful? Hurtful? How?
Martin H. Jones and Jennifer Symonds
Part II: Friendships
Chapter 3 What happens when friends fight?
Robert Cohen, Samantha Newman, and Robert Washington
Chapter 4 Do friendships change as students get older?
Julie Wargo Aikins
Chapter 5 Can teachers affect friendships?
Jill V. Hamm and Abigail S. Hoffman
Chapter 6 How do we support the peer acceptance of children with disabilities?
Paddy C. Favazza, Michaelene M. Ostrosky, Anke A. de Boer, and Florianne Rademaker
Chapter 7 Should gifted students be friends with non-gifted students?
Anne N. Rinn and Rebecca Johnson
Chapter 8 Can friends help motivate each other to do well?
Allison M. Ryan, Jessica E. Kilday, and Nicole R. Brass
Chapter 9 How do new students make friends?
Thomas A. Kindermann, Brandy A. Brennan, James L. DeLaney, and Daniel L. Grimes
Part III: Aggression, Popularity, and Bullying
Chapter 10 Can friends also be foes?
Catherine L. Bagwell and Karen P. Kochel
Chapter 11 Why do students bully?
Dorothy L. Espelage, Luz E. Robinson, and Alberto Valido
Chapter 12 What happens to popular kids?
Sunmi Seo and Kristina L. McDonald
Chapter 13 Why do students become popular?
Molly Dawes and Kate Norwalk
Chapter 14 Does social media make it worse?
Justin W. Vollet
Part IV: Conclusion
Chapter 15 Concluding comments: Where do we go from here?
Martin H. Jones
Biography
Martin H. Jones is Associate Professor of Educational Psychology in the Department of Individual, Family, & Community Education at the University of New Mexico, USA.
