Nonviolent Teaching

Students need to feel safe and secure in school so that they can perform to their full potential. Therefore, a safe school is an essential element in any learner's progress and functioning. To achieve student healthy development and their capacity to learn, peaceful circumstances must be ensured in the education environment. Thus, violence prevention and nonviolent teaching strategies have become essential focus areas for ongoing research. This chapter focuses on nonviolent teaching techniques that could be used in schools to ensure a positive school climate. The objective is to expand and deepen existing theory on multicultural nonviolent teaching techniques in schools, institutions of high learning, and centers of teacher development and training, in order to better understand nonviolence concepts, related techniques and their applications to achieve desired peaceful outcomes. The chapter further highlights potential forms of school violence, effects on the students and suggests techniques of dealing with the violence.