"You fight your battles and you work out how you're going to change": the implementation, embedding and limits of restorative practices in an Australian rural community school
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2024
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Stahl, G.
Schulz, S.
Baak, M.
Adams, B.
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Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2024; 52(1):82-100
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Garth Stahl, Samantha Schulz, Melanie Baak and Ben Adams
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Research suggests that the use of Restorative Practice (RP) in schools can foster more positive and inclusive school communities, yet there remains limited research regarding how to embed such practices. As part of a wider study, we present data from school leaders who describe their perspectives on RP and their struggles with implementing it in one rural Australian community school. This school is distinctive because of how it adopted a RP approach in an effort to change both the culture of the school and the culture of the wider community. To better inform our understanding regarding how RP was implemented, we focus on two overlapping dimensions – informing practice and embedding practice – before reflecting critically on some of the issues and limitations involved with using RP as a means of combating structural inequality.
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Published online: 28 Jun 2023
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© 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.