Practicing Restorative Justice in School Communities: Addressing the Challenge of Culture Change

Brenda Morrison (), Peta Blood () and Margaret Thorsborne ()

Public Organization Review, 2005, vol. 5, issue 4, 335-357

Abstract: The practice of restorative justice in schools has the capacity to build social and human capital through challenging students in the context of social and emotional learning. While restorative justice was originally introduced to schools to address serious incidents of misconduct and harmful behavior, the potential this philosophy offers is much greater. The conviction is that the key challenge for schools is addressing the culture change required to make the shift from traditional discipline, driven by punitive (or rewards based) external motivators, to restorative discipline, driven by relational motivators that seeks to empower individuals and their communities. Copyright Springer Science + Business Media, Inc. 2005

Keywords: restorative practices; school-wide implementation; culture change; educational reform; behavior change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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