EdPsy 399 OL Portfolio Casey Jo Burrus

 

 

Research Project:
Conflict Resolution

Overview | Mediator | Disputant | Conflicts

 

Project Overview: (Taken from the Activity's General Instructions)

This assignment will give you a chance to role play characters in 3 different conflict situations. Most importantly, you will each be the “mediator” in one of these conflicts, which means that you will have to contact the disputants, arrange the online mediation, collect the transcript, analyze the data and prepare a report. In the other 2 conflicts, you will be a disputant.

The 3 conflict resolution sessions will occur, one per week, over a 3-week period. Some of the sessions will be synchronous and others will be asynchronous. This will be explained to you in the specific instructions about each week’s conflicts to be delivered to your Digital Drop Box in Blackboard. Please don’t talk about your role play characters until everyone has completed the assignment.

As noted above, the main purpose of these Role Play assignments is to give everyone a chance to engage in a conflict resolution situation where the likelihood of a successful resolution is high, and a chance to use online technology for purposes other than exchanging course content and project information. Online conflict resolution is a growing industry, with a variety of focused software packages for such purposes. However, we are going to employ a regular chatroom (TappedIn,) for the synchronous version, and a special discussion board designed by Tony H. for the asynchronous version, a private board that makes it very easy to “save” the discussion board log.

 

The Role of the Mediator:

The Mediator of a Conflict Resolution scenario must follow specific guidelines in order to allow both disputants to have their say and to justly resolve the conflict. These guidelines were presented in the activity's General Information.

 

The Role of the Disputant:

The Disputants of a Conflict Resolution scenario are the individuals, that for some reason or another, have conflicting views on a particular issue. The guidelines for the role-playing disputants were presented in the activity's General Information.

My Role=Playing Conflicts:

Conflict 1: An English Teacher Feud

Conflict 1 Mediator's Report -- (In PDF format)

Conflict 2: Fight on the School Bus

Conflict 2 Mediator's Report -- by Amanda Lovell-Cole

Conflict 3: 4th Grade Project Team Conflict