Abstract:

The school which is the little reflection of social life includes several different profiles of students. These differences cause several conflicts in schools. The students that have not problem-solving skills can’t develop empathy or the students being externally controlled; inhibit the formation of healthy education and training. The students should be peaceful, fair, constructive, collaborationist, accommodationist in the school that the students spend time altogether for a healthy school atmosphere. The peer mediation education aims at educating the students finding fair keys of the solution, developing the strategy of dealing with the problems and having self-control. The fact that peer mediation education will supply some various advantages for teachers, managers and students in the schools with this approach is asserted. That peer mediation education will affect behavior of the students positively, will be lucrative if we think that the conflicts among the students in primary education and in secondary education in Turkey is increasing day by day is thought. Concordantly, the purpose of this article is introducing the importance of peer mediation education and researching effectiveness on the students in primary and secondary education in our country. In the direction of this aim, this literature was scanned within mediation, peer mediation, peer mediation in solving conflicts and peer mediation education. Then, effectiveness studies for the primary and secondary school students within peer mediation education were explained. Consequently, in the consideration of this literature implementations of the peer mediation education in primary and secondary schools in Turkey were discussed and various offers were presented.

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