Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: "what i've been in is a lot of conflicts" story-sharing and making sense of conflict in -- Middle childhood -- Listening to children's stories about their own conflicts -- Why conflict? : why narrative? a theoretical framework for the study of peer conflict narratives -- In middle childhood -- "What are you going to do with our stories?" : collaborating with children to understand peer -- Conflict -- How children describe their own conflicts -- "Fighting about friendship" : figuring out what it means to be a friend -- "She would kerce me out practedly every day" : social aggression in elementary school -- "Because the buyer had a gang in the dark corners of all around" : making sense of a violent -- World -- "I told my mom & she helped comfort me" : the roles children give to adults in their stories -- "Little girl, i was not talking to you!" : taking on gender in middle childhood -- "From that day on i became more responsible" : creating the self and re-creating culture in -- Middle childhood -- Applying the lessons learned from children's stories of conflict -- Oral story-sharing practices and the healthy classroom community -- Beyond literacy skills : story writing facilitates social, emotional, and moral development -- "It is okay to have conflicts, the most important thing is to know how to solve conflicts" : the -- Critical role of conflict narratives in human development -- Appendices -- Index.

"Close readings, combined with systematic analysis of dozens of features of the stories reveal that when children are invited to write or talk about their own conflicts, they produce accounts that are often charming and sometimes heartbreaking, and that always bring to light their social, emotional, and moral development. Children's personal stories about conflict reveal how they create and maintain friendships, how they understand and react to the social aggression that threatens those friendships, and how they understand and cope with physical aggression ranging from the pushing and poking of peers to criminal violence in their neighborhoods or families. Sometimes children describe the efforts of adults to influence their conflicts - efforts they sometimes welcome and sometimes resist. Their stories show them taking on gender and other cultural commitments. We are not just watching children become more and more like us as they move through the elementary school years - we are watching them become the architects of a future we will only see to the extent that we understand their way of making sense."--Provided by publisher.

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