Friday, April 20, 2012

April 20 Tip: Explore Restoorative Approach to School Discipline

April 20 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace:
Explore the innovative "Restorative Approach" to School Discipline

http://www.rpforschools.net/what.htm

The Restorative Approach to School Discipline asks these questions:
  • What happened?
  • Who’s been harmed? and
  • What needs to happen to repair some of that harm?
In this approach to dealing with wrongdoing, then, the focus is on the harm that has been done and the obligation this brings on the part of those responsible to ‘right the wrong’ as much as possible. It’s an approach that seeks to develop in the wrongdoer an understanding of the breadth and depth of the harm their behaviour has caused to others so that they can best try to make amends to those most affected. In this way, it’s an educative approach.

It also ensures that those who have been most affected by the wrongdoing have the opportunity to be involved in working out what has to happen in order to move forward.

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