Values and Values Education: Challenges for Faith Schools
Parents often choose faith schools because of their clear values, but it is not necessarily clear what this term means or how far the provision in faith schools is distinctive. This chapter explores key concepts and argues that values and values education represent both a major strength in and a major challenge to faith schools. Because of their consistent ethos and agreed framework of values, faith schools are able to provide sound and authoritative moral guidance to children (‘primary values education’), helping them to understand right and wrong and to behave in line with the shared values of their community. However, if young people are to make the values they learn in faith schools truly their own (‘secondary values education’), they need to learn to question their assumptions, to engage in critical thinking, to develop their moral imaginations, to be open to change and to learn the techniques of critical reflection and rational debate. These things may not come quite so easily to faith schools because of their reliance on authority and a clear, pre-determined framework of values, but without them young people may never attain moral maturity. Teachers in faith schools need to reflect carefully on their approach to values education to make sure they are developing students’ full potential and leading them towards personal and moral autonomy.
Mediation an Schulen
Die Leitfragen dieses Beitrags beziehen sich auf Ziele und Auswirkungen der Einfuhrung von Mediation in eine Schulkultur der Dominanz, des Wettbewerbs und der Auswahl. Zusatzlich soll die Notwendigkeit der Verbindung von Konfliktlosung mit Organisationsentwicklung und der Einfuhrung eines ethischen Konsens gezeigt werden, um nachhaltige Ergebnisse in der Gestaltung einer konstruktiven und gesunden Schulkultur zu erzielen. Anhand beispielhafter Bearbeitung soll gezeigt werden, wie Jugendliche bei knappen Finanzen und Zeitressourcen mit kunstlerischen Elementen ihren individuellen Entscheidungsraum bewusst handhaben und erweitern und zugleich in einer Umgebung sich wandelnder Werte und Machtstrukturen flexible Methoden der Kommunikation, Interessenvertretung und -verhandlung lernen konnen. Die fur Mediation entscheidenden Aspekte von Entwicklung konstruktiver Kommunikation und Konfliktlosung an deutschen Schulen werden mit Fokus auf die Art der Intervention und der Nachhaltigkeit ihrer Langzeiteffekte skizziert. 
Schlagworter: Nachhaltigkeit - Konsens - Eskalation - Kommunikation - Mehr- 
fachansatz 
In this article the guiding questions concern the objectives and effectiveness of introducing mediation into an existing school culture of dominance, competition and selection. In addition the necessity will be shown of combining conflict resolution with organisational development and the introduction of a consensual ethics and behaviour code to attain sustainable results in creating a constructive and healthy school environment. Given scarce resources and little time the decisive role of artistic methods will be looked at in providing young people with flexible methods of expressing and negotiating their interests in a changing environment of values and power structures. Some aspects of the development of nonviolent communication, conflict resolution and mediation methods in schools in Germany will be focused on with special emphasis on the type of intervention used and its long term sustainable effects. 
Key words: sustainability - consensus - escalation - communication - multiple approach
Wood Microbiology: Decay and Its Prevention
Introductory text on the principles of decay and discoloration processes in wood, with emphasis on the major fungal damages which may develop during the growth, storage, and use of wood. The characteristics, detection, effects, and control of microbial attacks are stressed. Provides a synthesis of the current literature on wood microbiology, a rapidly expanding field of study. (Abstractor's note: This is an important resource for conservation researchers studying the decay of wood in art and architecture.) The following is a list of chapter headings: 1) Introduction to wood microbiology; 2) Wood deterioration agents; 3) Characteristics and classification of fungi and bacteria; 4) Factors affecting the growth and survival of fungi in wood (fungal ecology); 5) Fungal metabolism in relation to wood decay; 6) The decay setting: some structural, chemical, and moisture features of wood in relation to decay development; 7) General features, recognition, and anatomical aspects of wood decay; 8) Chemical changes in wood caused by decay fungi; 9) Ultrastructural features of wood decay; 10) Changes caused by decay fungi in the strength and physical properties of wood; 11) Colonization and microbial interactions in wood decay; 12) Decays originating in the stems of living trees; 13) Biodeterioration of stored wood and its control; 14) Wood stains and discolorations; 15) Decay problems associated with some major uses of wood products; 16) Detection of internal decay; 17) Paint mildew and related degradative problems; 18) Natural decay resistance (wood durability); 19) Chemical protection of wood (wood preservation); and 20) Some trends in wood microbiology research and a new emphasis (biotechnology). -- AATA