On the ‘restorative idea’: setting boundaries, innovating and exploring the unknown (original) (raw)
Restorative Research: A Research Proposal [2013]
One of the key conclusions is expected to be the realization that environmental restoration is not only possible but also highly achievable if properly designed and planned for. This research is designed to heighten the contemporary goals of ecologically responsive and environmentally responsible design practices. Another expected outcome is the development of a viable methodology for modeling and simulating environmentally restorative design agenda. And finally, through in depth analyses and comparisons of results the proposed strategies, scenarios, and factors are evaluated for restorative significance and effectiveness.
A Discourse on Restorative Practice—Participants’ Views of a Divergent Ideology
Laws
This study is a discourse on restorative practice as a divergent epistemological ideology. It explores the field of restorative practice (RP) through thematic analysis of discursive captures from restorative practitioners and researchers within or associated with the Global Alliance for Restorative Justice and Social Justice. It includes elements of what could loosely be considered ethnographic research due to the time spent within restorative spaces, whilst analysing and processing the data. Methods include a restorative approach to research design, using online surveys as prerequisites to in-depth semi structured dialogic interviews. This led to reflexive thematic analysis, whereby three themes were constructed: the importance of congruence; evolution finding spaces for cultivation; and decentralising restorative practice through radical action. It is understood that this study takes a post positivist stance, designed to produce a discourse of participants’ views on RP as a diverg...
Reflecting on four years experience this paper explores some of the challenges and successes Re-Engage Youth Services encountered as they embarked on a journey to embed restorative practices throughout the organisation. This meant important changes to key aspects of service delivery, and just as importantly, it meant foundational changes to policy and procedures for managing staff and communication. This paper represents an honest attempt to share our reflections on what has been helpful and unhelpful for those interested in undertaking a similar journey.
Time for a paradigm shift toward a restorative culture
Restoration Ecology, 2019
The United Nations' recent declaration of a Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021–2030) conveys the immense scales of degradation we face and the urgency of ecological recovery. Yet it speaks predominantly to productivity‐based approaches that may poorly balance conservation and development goals. As a result, it overlooks or distorts the very real potential for the holistic restoration of natural and cultural ecosystems to achieve lasting social and human health and well‐being benefits, and help stem the grotesque loss of biodiversity and ecosystem health in these times. There is need for a profound paradigm shift to address the prevailing economic and political climate that is keeping our world and biosphere on their current ominous trajectory. Such a paradigm shift could be based on the idea of a “restorative culture.” Practically, this could proceed by coupling the foundational philosophies and modus operandi of restoration ecology with public health medicine. The outcome wo...
Restorative Practices: From the Early Societies to the 1970s
Restorative practices now appeal to the contemporary politician. Policies and practices are being reformed using the paradigm of restorative justice. However, little research has been done on its historical roots. Many have even claimed that restorative practices do not have a history at all. Through a review of historical and contemporary sources, this article challenges this claim. The paper provides a brief historical account of restorative practices stretching from the acephalous societies until the 1970s. Four eras are identified in the fall and rise of restorative justice through time. A historical debate and further academic research on restorative justice is warranted. The implications of a more informed understanding of the history of restorative practices are significant for their implementation in contemporary society.
Reshaping the field: building restorative capital
Restorative Justice, 2014
Restorative justice is best known as an alternative approach for dealing with crime and wrongdoing. Yet as the restorative movement has grown it is increasingly being deployed in different arenas. Based on a two-year study funded by the UK National Lottery, this article provides an early glimpse into how people experience the introduction of restorativeness as cultural change within an organisational context. Using a combination of observation, in-depth interviews and focus groups, this research explores how different staff groups react to, adapt to and resist the introduction of a new ethos and language within their organisation. Drawing on the ideas of Bourdieu (1986), it appears that a new form of restorative cultural capital is emerging that threatens the very integrity of the values restorative justice claims to uphold. * We would like to thank all the staff at the Goodwin Development Trust for their time and help in conducting this research. Particular thanks must go to Kathryn Sowerby for her coordinating role at Goodwin and to Rebecca Shipley for her invaluable help on the project. We would also like to thank Keith Tester, Mark Johnson and Mike McCahill for their advice and comments on parts of this article.
Laws
The purpose of this study is to explore restorative practice (RP) within education, highlighting practitioner views from an inductive evaluative perspective. This is in response to the suggested ambiguity over what constitutes RP in education. Practitioner perspectives are explored, providing an insight into an established restorative school. New data offer further clarity on RP in education by describing embedded practice and highlighting sites for further specific task analysis. Methods include semi-structured questionnaires in the form of employee practice statements, situated within insider research. Eleven practice statements were completed, which were then subject to in-depth thematic analysis. The main findings of this study suggest that RP is clearly understood in this educational setting and participants described a wholistic approach that is part of a wider culture, not just practice as an intervention. Analysis suggests that this can be categorised into the following thre...
RESTORATIVE PRACTICES: FROM THE EARLY SOCIETIES
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Restorative practices now appeal to the contemporary politician. Policies and practices are being reformed using the paradigm of restorative justice. However, little research has been done on its historical roots. Many have even claimed that restorative practices do not have a history at all. Through a review of historical and contemporary sources, this article challenges this claim. The paper provides a brief historical account of restorative practices stretching from the acephalous societies until the 1970s. Four eras are identified in the fall and rise of restorative justice through time. A historical debate and further academic research on restorative justice is warranted. The implications of a more informed understanding of the history of restorative practices are significant for their implementation in contemporary society.
The Occupational Therapy Journal of Research
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and solidity of our possessions.-Sir Thomas Henry Huxley, 1887 This issue of the Occupational Therapy Journal of Research (OTJR) is the 24th since the journal's founding in 1981, and it marks the conclusion of my term as editor. Thus, it seems appropriate to reflect on the progress of the journal and comment on my perceptions of the status of research in occupational therapy and the challenges confronting the profession. I do so with the nostalgia that inevitably comes with concluding an endeavor that has taken a significant portion of one's time and energy over a sustained period. Accompanying this nostalgia is
Between Wholeness and Restoration: Theorizing Restorative Justice and Restorative Practice
2006
Howard Zehr (2006) was half way through his presentation on Restorative Justice when he admitted his puzzlement regarding its effectiveness. As a leading North American researcher and practitioner in the field of implementing restorative justice as an alternative to the more retributive judicial system, he acknowledged that though an effective model had been created, he continued to be surprised to hear those who had experienced it say, “Restorative justice has changed my life!” Why is it that Restorative justice changes lives? he asked. In other words, he was reiterating what Marshall (1999) stated seven years earlier in an overview of theories related to restorative justice, “as it currently stands, Restorative Justice still lacks a definitive theoretical statement … whether it is capable of becoming more than just a model of practice and becoming a complete theory of justice remains to be seen” (p. 30)
2017
The completion of this thesis has been quite a long journey and could not have been possible without the support and input of my supervision team, the School of Psychology, Melbourne, Staff at the Institute of Positive Psychology and Education, the Catholic Education Office Melbourne, Marg Armstrong, and the participation of the students and teachers in the study. I would like to recognise the direction, early in my research career, from Professor Sheryl Hemphill who saw the potential in me to commence this journey. Similarly, I would like to thank Dr David Broderick, the only supervisor to have seen me through from beginning to end. Dr Jess Heerde who gave me huge moral support, advice on Endnote and all things PhD. Mid-way through my journey I was fortunate to gain the amazing insights on qualitative research from Associate Professor Helen Bourke-Taylor Her knowledge helped me to shape this work and gain my first peer-reviewed publication.
Developing a restoration narrative: A pathway towards system-wide healing and a restorative culture
Ecological Economics, 2020
The current generation of Homo sapiens is paying the bill for the foolishness of, among other things, the Ceteris paribus assumption which postulates that natural capital is infinite and the quality thereof constant. The outcome is an unprecedented ecological overshoot as well as rapid and widespread degradation and fragmentation of both ecological and social systems. Despite their international commitments, few nations currently pay more than lipservice to invest in the widely acknowledged need ö from economic as well as ecological perspectives ö to invest more heavily to assist the restoration and recovery of degraded ecosystems almost everywhere. There is good evidence from eight recently published meta-analyses of ecological restoration work done at over 1 400 sites, that show that human societies clearly benefit economically from ecological restoration and allied activities. Perversely ö or predictably ö global society's indifference to or denial of this reality is shortsighted in the extreme, and flagrantly neglectful of future generations of all life on earth. We argue that the disjunction between the required and actual investment in restoration is attributable, in part, to both the dysfunction of our political economies and the fact that essentially all human and ecological systems are 'wicked systems' (i.e. complex and complicated, simultaneously). This in turn leads to 'wicked problems' for anyone concerned with making ecological restoration a part of daily life for the next generation. While rational, science-based observations, pilot studies, and modelling can help diagnose a wicked problem, and prescribe ways to launch and sustain large-scale and lasting ecological restoration and recovery of degraded ecosystems, this is patently not sufficient. Invariably people have varying beliefs about, and understanding of, the past, present, and future. This leads to ontological uncertainty when groups of disparate people try to work together on wicked problems, thanks to past conflict and trauma, and differing readings of what has happened, is happening, and may happen in the increasingly unknowable and unpredictable future. This uncertainty introduces risk in all human impacted systems. Scientists, especially those involved in ecological economics and ecological restoration, could help society cross this bridge of uncertainty towards a shared vision and action plan. Working together with people from varying interconnected fields and disciplines, we call for greater use of structured dialogue, embedded within a restoration narrative, to nurture and promote a 'restorative culture'.