Developing Safer Schools and Communities for Our Children: The Interdisciplinary Responsibility of Our Time

by Betsy Gunzelmann

Overview

All children should feel safe and secure in their schools and communities. In today's society, children are dealing with the threat of violence in their schools and online, food insecurity, environmental risks, terrorism, and many other concerns that make them feel less safe. Our jobs as teachers and parents is to manage that risk by being prepared and protecting our children. In this book, Betsy Gunzelmann discusses the ways we can plan ahead and prepare for these threats in order to help our children feel safer and be able to focus on their school and lives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781475807530
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	02/05/2015
Pages:	120
Product dimensions:	6.13(w) x 9.35(h) x 0.53(d)

About the Author

Betsy Gunzelmann is professor of psychology at Southern New Hampshire University and author of several articles involved with improving our schools. She has worked in the field for over thirty years and is a psychologist, educator, and parent concerned with issues hindering our children’s education.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: Why does violence occur? Why do we have these safety issues? Part I: The Critical Need for Safer Schools and Communities for Our Children Chapter 1: The Critical Need for Safer Climates for our Children Chapter 2: The Interdisciplinary Necessity and Obligation Chapter 3: The Crucial Research Part II: What are these Safety Concerns? Chapter 4: The Parent, School, and Agency Perspectives Chapter 5: Man-Made Potential Disasters Chapter 6: Natural Disasters Part III: Understanding the Problems Underneath the Problems Chapter 7: Sick Society Syndrome: The Psychology of the Darker Side of Our Ailing Society Chapter 8: The Fallout in the Community Chapter 9: The Fallout to the Individuals Part IV: Working Together: Developing Safer Climates for Our Children Chapter 10: So Now What? References

Editorial Reviews

Betsy Gunzelmann’s discussion of violence and safety shows appropriate concern for children’s healthy development. In response, let’s guide children to use and consume media critically, responsibly and pro-socially to mitigate cultural violence, violent media and events, disrespectful and harmful media use.

Rona Zlokower

It's hard not to be affected by this description of how children are emotionally and physically harmed in the 2lst century. Seeing and hearing the world through their eyes is made easier—and also more difficult—as one reads Gunzelmann's account. As she says, 'the fallout has a domino effect' on all of us.

Deborah Meier