Monday, May 19, 2014

CHARTER SCHOOLS: A MODEL FOR RESTORATIVE JUSTICE

CHARTER SCHOOLS: A MODEL FOR RESTORATIVE JUSTICE
WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO STAND OUT?


The increase of violence in schools has initiated a closer look at the ineffectiveness of current practices and opened the door to explore more restorative avenues. Yet a key challenge for restorative justice in schools is the culture change required to make the shift from a traditional retributive paradigm to a restorative paradigm. This project seeks to explore and evaluate whether the comprehensive implementation of restorative justice in public charter schools, free from traditional government regulation, holds promise as an educational model for creating a more civil (restorative) culture. The research also seeks to examine the effects of restorative prevention and intervention on school culture change in this charter model and how it might produce more civil citizens. The model may also prove useful for traditional schools, as well as other organizations. 

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