This essay deals with communication of archeology to children. I have interviewed seven persons who work with such communication, authors, guides at excavations, teachers who do time travels and try to dig. My purpose of this essay is to make it clear what is a good method to communicate archeology to children consist of. My issue for this essay is how you make archeology more accessible for children and how to animate to the knowledge of ancient world for children? How do the various methods of passing on knowledge of antiquity? I came to the conclusion that activity and participation are two important factors in teaching archaeology. The methods that worked best in mediating archaeology are time travels and "try to dig projects" with children. Important concepts are communication and public archeology.

Mediation of disputes in all arenas has proven to be faster, more efficient and less expensive than adversarial processes, and it is widely believed that they lead to longer-lasting and more satisfying solutions. The purpose of this study was to analyze the data gathered by the Illinois Agricultural Mediation Program (IAMP) in the form of feedback from farmers and USDA agents involved in mediation of adverse decisions made by USDA. Data were organized by type of statistical method to be used for analysis and by type of participant (Farmer, USDA agent) in the mediation process, and by independent variables which may be associated with farmer satisfaction with mediation. Descriptive statistics of count and percentages, and logistic regression were used for these analyses. The results of the statistical tests revealed that the farmers and USDA agents were generally positive in their rating of the mediation process. Even though the mediation process did not frequently result in a change of the original decision, the farmers reported that they better understood USDA rules, regulations and policies.

The Latino population is not accessing community mediation centers throughout Oregon. Mediation provides a safe space to resolve conflicts outside of the adjudicative processes and at a lower cost. Through interviews with program coordinators/directors of community mediation centers around Oregon, mediators with experience in bilingual mediation and Latino stakeholders, I explore the barriers that exist and methods to increase the participation of the Latino population in community mediation centers. The research asserts that mediation program practitioners have a desire to reach out to the Latino population but face enormous difficulty due to a lack of trust and, frequently, a lack of resources. The findings illustrate that energy and time focused on outreach and community building with the Latino population is necessary to increase trust, knowledge and willingness to participate in mediation. There is a need to train new mediators and to design programs to bring conflict resolution into diverse communities.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:32:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-12-14Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:43:15Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 bortolin_s_dr_mar.pdf: 931272 bytes, checksum: 82d098f7eb78d447344ab6bd98c51562 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Fundação Araucária de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico do Paraná (FAADCT/PR) / A presente tese teve como objetivo construir o conceito de Mediação Oral da Literatura. Ela foi proposta tendo como ponto de partida a percepção da pesquisadora de que a biblioteca e o bibliotecário envolvem-se pouco com as práticas de leitura em suas múltiplas linguagens. Defende que o bibliotecário, além de se preocupar em organizar a informação, estando ela impressa ou em rede, deve ter iniciativas que levem o leitor a apropriação da informação, por meio da leitura. O método escolhido para o desenvolvimento desta pesquisa foi o bibliográfico, com ele a pesquisadora ultrapassou os limites biblioteconômicos aproximandose de áreas de Artes Cênicas, Comunicação, História, Letras e Pedagogia. Esta opção permitiu a construção dos conceitos oralisfera, oralistologia, leitor-ouvinte, leitor-narrador e, principalmente, da mediação oral da literatura. Com isso, teve-se a intenção de trazer para a Biblioteconomia subsídios que levem o bibliotecário a promover novas e diversas ações que envolvam a oralidade, portanto, a estética da recepção, a mediação literária, as narrativas orais utilizando a voz, o corpo, o espaço e a presença foram abordados neste trabalho. Assim, espera-se que as reflexões e propostas aqui apresentadas possam servir para ampliar o uso das bibliotecas e de seus respectivos acervos por meio de atividades literárias, sociais, culturais, educativas e científicas / This thesis aimed to construct the concept of Oral Mediation of Literature. This theory was proposed having as a starting-point the researcher's perception that the library and the librarian engage little with the reading practices in their multiple languages. It argues that the librarian, besides worrying about organizing printed or networked information, should take initiatives that leaded the reader to the appropriation of the information through reading. The bibliographic research was the method chosen for the development of this research; approaching areas such as Arts, Performing Arts, Communication, History, Literature and Pedagogy the researcher exceeded the limits of Librarianship. This option enabled the creation of concepts like oralisfera, oralistologia, listener-reader, narrator-reader and principally of Oral Mediation of Literature. Therefore, the intention is to bring subsidies that lead the librarians to promote new and diverse activities that involve orality and, hence, the reception aesthetics, literary mediation and the oral narrative using the voice, body, space and presence, that were approached in this paper. Thus, it is hoped that the ideas and proposals presented here may be useful to expand the use of libraries and their respective collections through literary, social, cultural, educational and scientific activities

Orientador: Oswaldo Francisco de Almeida Júnior / Banca: Carlos Cândido de Almeida / Banca: Rovilson José da Silva / Banca : Edmir Perrotti / Banca: Ivete Pieruccini / Resumo: A presente tese teve como objetivo construir o conceito de Mediação Oral da Literatura. Ela foi proposta tendo como ponto de partida a percepção da pesquisadora de que a biblioteca e o bibliotecário envolvem-se pouco com as práticas de leitura em suas múltiplas linguagens. Defende que o bibliotecário, além de se preocupar em organizar a informação, estando ela impressa ou em rede, deve ter iniciativas que levem o leitor a apropriação da informação, por meio da leitura. O método escolhido para o desenvolvimento desta pesquisa foi o bibliográfico, com ele a pesquisadora ultrapassou os limites biblioteconômicos aproximandose de áreas de Artes Cênicas, Comunicação, História, Letras e Pedagogia. Esta opção permitiu a construção dos conceitos oralisfera, oralistologia, leitor-ouvinte, leitor-narrador e, principalmente, da mediação oral da literatura. Com isso, teve-se a intenção de trazer para a Biblioteconomia subsídios que levem o bibliotecário a promover novas e diversas ações que envolvam a oralidade, portanto, a estética da recepção, a mediação literária, as narrativas orais utilizando a voz, o corpo, o espaço e a presença foram abordados neste trabalho. Assim, espera-se que as reflexões e propostas aqui apresentadas possam servir para ampliar o uso das bibliotecas e de seus respectivos acervos por meio de atividades literárias, sociais, culturais, educativas e científicas / Abstract: This thesis aimed to construct the concept of Oral Mediation of Literature. This theory was proposed having as a starting-point the researcher's perception that the library and the librarian engage little with the reading practices in their multiple languages. It argues that the librarian, besides worrying about organizing printed or networked information, should take initiatives that leaded the reader to the appropriation of the information through reading. The bibliographic research was the method chosen for the development of this research; approaching areas such as Arts, Performing Arts, Communication, History, Literature and Pedagogy the researcher exceeded the limits of Librarianship. This option enabled the creation of concepts like oralisfera, oralistologia, listener-reader, narrator-reader and principally of Oral Mediation of Literature. Therefore, the intention is to bring subsidies that lead the librarians to promote new and diverse activities that involve orality and, hence, the reception aesthetics, literary mediation and the oral narrative using the voice, body, space and presence, that were approached in this paper. Thus, it is hoped that the ideas and proposals presented here may be useful to expand the use of libraries and their respective collections through literary, social, cultural, educational and scientific activities / Doutor

This research study addresses the problem of determining the strategies that can be used to manage conflict effectively. To achieve this objective a comprehensive literature study was performed to determine the views on conflict and various models of conflict. The study also included the reasons for and sources of conflict and the effects of conflict on an organisation. The next step was to identify the conflict management strategies that were revealed by the literature study. The appropriate conflict handling styles, how to improve organisational practices and special rules and structures were discussed as well as various suggestions from different authors on how to resolve a conflict situation. Based on the information obtained from the literature study a model was developed to serve as a guide to organisations to manage conflict effectively. Managers from a specific organisation were requested to complete questionnaires in order to determine the strategies used by their organisation to manage conflict. The questionnaire was developed in accordance with the findings from the research. The answers of the respondents were analysed and compared to the findings of the literature study. The information obtained from the literature study and from the respondents resulted in various recommendations and conclusions. The previously mentioned model that was developed was applied to the organisation, specifically addressing the pertinent issues as indicated by the respondents.

This study narratively explores the experiences of five public school counsellors and one high school teacher using Conversation Peace, a restorative action peer mediation program published jointly in 2001 by Fraser Region Community Justice Initiatives Association (CJI), Langley, British Columbia, Canada, and School District #35, Langley, British Columbia, Canada. This categorical-content analysis (Lieblich, Tuval-Mashiach, & Zilber, 1998) resulted in data describing 20 common themes, 12 with similar responses, and 8 with varying responses amongst participants. Two of the similar findings were the crucial importance of (a) confidentiality within the mediation process, and (b) the school counsellor’s role within the overall and day-to-day implementation of this peer mediation program. Two of the varying findings were (a) the time involvement of the school counsellor within the peer mediation program, and (b) the differences in the number of trained peer mediators and peer mediations within schools. / Education, Faculty of / Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education (ECPS), Department of / Graduate

In African countries emerging from periods of violent crisis a layer of civil society practitioners and peacebuilders appear to play a critical role in mediating the inevitable disputes and tensions that arise. This treatise focuses on a sample of these mediating practitioners who perceive themselves in a variety of different ways, as peacebuilders, as conflict managers, as conflict resolution practitioners and as conflict transformation practitioners. The practitioners who participated in this study work at multiple levels to support the mediative processes that are needed in contexts of crisis and transition. They form part of a wider group of practitioners who have taken the initiative to organise insider mediators into a learning community of practitioners, under the auspices of the African Insider Mediators Platform (AIMP). This platform provides scholars with a useful research opportunity. The overall aim of this study is to explore the relationship between conflict transformation theory and the establishment of the AIMP as perceived by AIMP practitioners. It captures the perceptions that mediators have of the nature of the conflicts in which they are engaged and the influence of theoretical approaches on their practice. The treatise focuses on the perceptions of selected mediation practitioners associated with the AIMP. It draws out the conceptual lenses that are used to inform perceptions of effective mediation practice and that connect the perceptions of practitioners with the concepts contained within the conflict transformation theory. In so doing it describes the perceptions of practitioners and discusses the extent to which these perceptions resonate or deviate from theoretical conceptualisations of conflict in Africa and the theoretical frameworks that outline what constitutes an effective mediative response to this conflict. The insights into effectiveness that emerge from this approach are outlined in the treatise, drawing from background research that has informed the formation of the AIMP as well as from interviews carried out with selected mediation practitioners. The research findings suggest that there are several perceived connections between the theoretical underpinnings of conflict transformation approaches and the practice of the insider mediators involved in this study. The discussion of the data puts forward the proposition that the conceptual perceptions of the insider mediators involved in the study, in their description of elements of mediation practice and the nature of conflict, resonate strongly with the theories associated with conflict transformation thinking. In addition several additional theoretical influences appear to have been incorporated into an overall approach to discrete and collaborative mediation efforts that reinforce a strong connection between conflict transformation thinking and the practice of insider mediators. These relational connections between theory and practice are outlined in some detail in the description of the study that follows.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was-to determine the distribution of mediation styles among California school superintendents. It also investigated the relationship between superintendents' mediation styles and the :following variables: tenure, mobility, professional preparation, job satisfaction, school board relationships, self-perceived leadership style, and district size. Procedures: Two hundred fourteen superintendents were surveyed. Each participant self-administered the Gregorc Style Delineator and completed a questionnaire regarding tenure, mobility, and professional preparation. A subsample of 32 superintendents was -Interviewed by telephone regarding the remaining variables. Data collected were statistically analyzed through use of chi-square goodness-of-fit, chi-square test of association, and analysis of variance. Findings: Analysis of the data indicates that the Concrete Random mediation style reported by 43% of the respondents is the most prevalent among California superintendents. The Concrete Sequential mediation style was reported by 36% of the participants, while Abstract Sequential was reported by eight percent, and Abstract Random was reported by seven percent of the sample. There were significant differences between the four mediation-style groups when the variables of tenure, leadership style, school board relationships, and job satisfaction were examined. There were no significant differences-between groups for the remaining variables. Conclusions or Recommendations: The .large percentage (79) of superintendents reporting concrete rather than -abstract perceptual abilities suggests that superintendents perceive information through the physical senses rather than ·intuitively. Fifty percent of the superintendents also reported random rather than sequential- ordering ability, suggesting that they arrange and organize information in-a nonlinear holistic manner rather than sequentially and discretely. The Concrete Random style was the most reported mediation style, suggesting that superintendents perceive events from the physical world, but systematize and dispose of them intuitively and instinctively. The small percentage of reported Abstract Sequential and Abstract Random mediation styles suggests that the qualities of emotion, holistic experiences, and inductive reasoning occur less frequently or are less valued by superintendents . . Additional research is needed to determine-(1) how the-mediation styles of superintendents compare with other populations and (2) whether mediation styles change over time.

Negotiation is one of the most critical processes that determine organizational performance. Since the 1950s, scholars have revealed that negotiator cognition and decision-making processes play a crucial role in determining negotiation performance. Recently, scholars have started to pay attention to the importance of emotion in negotiation and have suggested that emotional intelligence is likely to contribute to improving negotiation performance. However, few studies have tested the relationship between emotional intelligence and negotiation outcomes. The current study contributes to the literature on negotiation by empirically testing the influence of emotional intelligence on negotiation outcomes, and also examining the mediating effects of rapport, negotiation strategy, and judgment accuracy. In particular, the current study hypothesized that emotional intelligence would have a positive association with both economic outcomes (individual and joint gain) and social outcomes (satisfaction, trust, desire to work in the future), and that rapport, bargaining strategy, and judgment accuracy would mediate the relationships between emotional intelligence and negotiation outcomes. This study employed a laboratory experimental design. 204 business major students (102 dyads) at the junior and senior level participated in a negotiation task involving a job contract where one party played the role of personnel manager and the other played the role of new employee. The direct effects of emotional intelligence on negotiation outcomes were tested using regression analysis, and the mediating effects of rapport, strategy, and judgment accuracy were tested using Baron and Kenny's (1986) four-step approach. Emotional intelligence scores of participants were measured using the 33-item Emotional Intelligence Scale (Schutte, Malouff, Hall, Haggerty, Cooper, Golden, & Dornheim, 1998). The current study found that emotional intelligence had a significant effect on the opponent's trust, satisfaction, and desire to work in the future, and that rapport and negotiation strategy fully or partially mediated the relationship between emotional intelligence and trust, satisfaction, and desire. Implications, future research issues, contributions, and strengths/weaknesses of the current research are discussed.