Restorative Practice Meets Social Justice

Un-Silencing the Voices of "At-Promise" Student Populations

Anthony H. Normore, Antonia Issa Lahera, Anthony H. Normore, Antonia Issa Lahera

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9781681237275
  9781681237282
• eBook ISBN:
  9781681237299
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Educational Policy

Restorative Practice Meets Social Justice: Un-silencing the Voices of "At-Promise" Student Populations is a collection of pragmatic urban school experiences that focus on restorative approaches situated in the context of social justice. By adopting this approach, researchers and practitioners can connect and extend long-established lines of conceptual and empirical inquiry aimed at improving school practices and thereby gain insights that may otherwise be overlooked or assumed. This holds great promise for generating, refining, and testing theories of restorative practices in educational leadership and will help strengthen already vibrant lines of inquiry on social justice. The authors posit that a broader conceptualization of social and restorative justice adds to extant discourse about students who not only experience various types of daily oppression in US schools but also regularly live on the fringes of society. Chapters are written by a combination of researchers and practicing school leaders who believe in the power of healing and restoring relationships within school communities as opposed to traditional punitive structures. The dynamic approaches discussed throughout the book urge school leaders, teachers, school community members, and those who prepare administrators to look within and build bridges between themselves and the communities in which they serve.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Series editor's preface
• Foreword
• Introduction
• 1. Social justice and restorative processes in urban schools: historical context
• 2. Growing social justice leadership through system hacks: the formula for operationalizing change
• 3. The "at-promise" model minority student: providing equity, restorative practices, and access to mental health supports
• 4. Mindful schools: how does a restorative academic space create a responsive program culture for 16-24 year olds?
• 5. Using communicative intelligence to situate language in the context of restorative practices to create new associations
• 6. Restorative practices and english language learners: language development in relational contexts
• 7. Connection to community to content
• 8. Using restorative principles to redesign a middle school for the common good
• 9. Cultivating restorative communities: a k-12 systems approach to restorative practices
• 10. Creating a restorative community
• Narratives leaders' voices in the field
• About the contributors