ENCOUNTERING CONFLICT
Advice From the Chief Examiner
BOB HILLMAN ARTICLE ON CONFLICT
WHAT IS CONFLICT - SEE THIS POWERPOINT
Remember the assessment holistically considers how well your response to the prompt handles:
Ideas about the context in response to the prompt (your ideas about the context that are relevant to the prompt. Are they sophisticated or superficial?)
Ideas from the text relevant to the context and prompt (your ability to draw relevant ideas from the text that are relevant to the prompt. Are they sophisticated or superficial? Are they apt?)
Your chosen form, audience, purpose
Go to this link and click on examiners' reports to see sample reponses from students
http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vce/studies/english/englishexams.html
http://jonswilliams.wikispaces.com - see the Rugmaker page for samples
Why not call it Conflict? What are the implications of calling it Encountering Conflict?
Questions to Consider:
• Define the phrase ‘encountering conflict’.
• Levels of conflict include; inner/personal, interpersonal (between characters) and extrapersonal
(conflict with environment and institutions). Give examples of each of these
from personal experience or previous study.
• Brainstorm and list as many types of conflict as you can.
• List causes of conflict.
• How do different individuals respond as they encounter conflict?
• What effect does conflict have on individuals, families and communities? Consider
immediate impact and short and long term consequences.
• How are conflicts resolved? What impact might different solutions to conflict have on
individuals?
• Is conflict inevitable?
• Can conflict always be resolved?
• Is conflict necessarily a bad thing?
• Could there be a link between conflict and human endeavour?
Encountering Conflict - Possible Prompts
Create headings for each group of prompts; re-order some if you wish and add further prompts. Use the Conflict Flow Chart to help you.
BOB HILLMAN ARTICLE ON CONFLICT
WHAT IS CONFLICT - SEE THIS POWERPOINT
Remember the assessment holistically considers how well your response to the prompt handles:
Ideas about the context in response to the prompt (your ideas about the context that are relevant to the prompt. Are they sophisticated or superficial?)
Ideas from the text relevant to the context and prompt (your ability to draw relevant ideas from the text that are relevant to the prompt. Are they sophisticated or superficial? Are they apt?)
Your chosen form, audience, purpose
Go to this link and click on examiners' reports to see sample reponses from students
http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vce/studies/english/englishexams.html
http://jonswilliams.wikispaces.com - see the Rugmaker page for samples
Why not call it Conflict? What are the implications of calling it Encountering Conflict?
Questions to Consider:
• Define the phrase ‘encountering conflict’.
• Levels of conflict include; inner/personal, interpersonal (between characters) and extrapersonal
(conflict with environment and institutions). Give examples of each of these
from personal experience or previous study.
• Brainstorm and list as many types of conflict as you can.
• List causes of conflict.
• How do different individuals respond as they encounter conflict?
• What effect does conflict have on individuals, families and communities? Consider
immediate impact and short and long term consequences.
• How are conflicts resolved? What impact might different solutions to conflict have on
individuals?
• Is conflict inevitable?
• Can conflict always be resolved?
• Is conflict necessarily a bad thing?
• Could there be a link between conflict and human endeavour?
Encountering Conflict - Possible Prompts
Create headings for each group of prompts; re-order some if you wish and add further prompts. Use the Conflict Flow Chart to help you.
- Conflict arises out of a perception of threat
- Fear is the seed from which conflict grows
- The prime instigator of conflict is fear
- The desire for wealth and status inherent in all humans means that conflict will always be with us
- The desire to possess is an inherent human quality that means conflict is inevitable
- The natural desire for status leads to conflict
- Imbalances in power lead to conflict
- Expectations means conflict
- Conflict often arises from miscommunication
- Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.
- Physical conflict is usually destructive, but ideological conflict without violence can be productive
- A Conflict of ideas only becomes dangerous when prejudice is allowed to guide the conflict
- Social order can deteriorate into conflict and anarchy with disturbing ease
- Different societies have a tendency to conflict
- Conflicts from history can teach us many things about ourselves and the times in which we live
- In conflicts often some gain at the expense of others
- In conflict, only one thing is impossible: neutrality
- The greatest conflicts are not between man and man, but man and himself.
- Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
- Conflict can reveal unexpected qualities in an individual
- An individual’s ability to deal with conflict is determined by their self-knowledge
- External conflict often mirrors the internal conflicts of the individual
- The desire for individual expression can lead to conflict
- Without conflict we cannot be fully human
- Only through conflict can real growth occur.
- “Don’t be afraid of opposition: remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.” (Hamilton Mabie)
- The human spirit grows strong by conflict.
- Conflict is a normal part of everyday life.
- Good relationships need conflict
- Only through conflict can real growth occur
- Not all conflict is destructive
- Creation is rarely possible without conflict
- It is through conflict that we grow.
- Where everyone agrees, no one thinks much.
- Only once conflict is expressed is the path to resolution possible
- Conflicts can usually be solved. It depends on how you approach them.
- Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of understanding.
- Sometimes we need to close our eyes and minds to reality if we want to avoid conflict.
- “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” [Thomas Paine]
- “There are three ways of dealing with [conflict]: domination, compromise, integration …” [Mary Parker Follett
- Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of understanding.
- Why conflict happens is less important than how it affects people (sample exam 2008)
- There are few winners in conflict