Teaching Young Children in Violent Times: Building a Peaceable Classroom - Softcover

The new edition of this highly acclaimed book is a must for early childhood educators, parents, and policy makers. It helps teachers create a Peaceable Classroom, where children learn peaceful alternatives to the violent behaviors modeled for them in society. This extensively revised and updated edition features new material for a post-September 11th world including a new chapter on helping children deal with violence in the news.

Diane E. Levin, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized expert on how violence and media affect you children's development, ideas and behavior. She is a Professor of Education at Wheelock College in Boston, Massachusetts, where she teachers courses on children's play, media, and violence. Dr. Levin is also a Research Associate at the Center for Peaceable Schools at Lesley University and a co-founder of Teachers Resisting Unhealthy Children's Entertainment (TRUCE), and the coalition to Stop Commercial Exploitation of Children (SCEC).