1st Edition

Restorative Practices in Classrooms

By Margaret Thorsborne, David Vinegrad Copyright 2004
74 Pages
by Speechmark

74 Pages
by Speechmark

This work helps in rethinking behaviour management through the use of restorative justice methods in the classroom. This clearly presented manual takes practitioners in gradual stages through the harsh realities of confronting wrong-doing and injustice in school. The traditional approach seeks simply to apportion blame and punish the wrongdoer. There is now strong evidence that restorative justice... Read more
A4 (297 x 210mm), 150pp  Wire-o-bound  ISBN 978-1-90651-729-8     ORDER CODE  D11-007-5839  GBP70.99  Foreword  About this manual  Chapter 1 Rethinking our approaches to managing behaviour  Chapter 2 Restorative practices - a continuum  Chapter 3 Working proactively - classroom conferences and teaching and learning  Chapter 4 Classroom conferences - responding to wrongdoing  Chapter 5 Individual, small and medium group conferences  Chapter 6 Facilitating conferences - understanding the script  Chapter 7 What if?  Appendix    Classroom conference script    The 'no blame' conference script    Classroom conference report    Classroom conference evaluation    Conference facilitator checklist    Letter to parents    Recommended reading    Case studies  About the authors

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