Justice on Both Sides: Transforming Education Through Restorative Justice

by Maisha T. Winn, H. Richard Milner IV (Editor)

Overview

Restorative justice represents “a paradigm shift in the way Americans conceptualize and administer punishment,” says author Maisha T. Winn, from a focus on crime to a focus on harm, including the needs of both those who were harmed and those who caused it. Her book, Justice on Both Sides, provides an urgently needed, comprehensive account of the value of restorative justice and how contemporary schools can implement effective practices to address inequalities associated with race, class, and gender.
 
Winn, a restorative justice practitioner and scholar, draws on her extensive experience as a coach to school leaders and teachers to show how indispensable restorative justice is in understanding and addressing the educational needs of students, particularly disadvantaged youth. Justice on Both Sides makes a major contribution by demonstrating how this actually works in schools and how it can be integrated into a range of educational settings. It also emphasizes how language and labeling must be addressed in any fruitful restorative effort. Ultimately, Winn makes the case for restorative justice as a crucial answer, at least in part, to the unequal practices and opportunities in American schools.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781682531822
Publisher:	Harvard Education Press
Publication date:	05/22/2018
Series:	Race and Education
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Maisha T. Winn is the associate dean and Chancellor’s Leadership Professor in the School of Education at the University of California, Davis, where she cofounded and codirects the Transformative Justice in Education (TJE) Center. Much of Professor Winn’s early scholarship examines how young people create literate identities through performing literacy and how teachers who are “practitioners of the craft” serve as “soul models” to emerging writers. Winn served as the Jeannette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities at Syracuse University (2019–20). She is the author of several books including Writing in Rhythm: Spoken Word Poetry in Urban Schools, Black Literate Lives: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (both published under maiden name, Fisher); Girl Time: Literacy, Justice, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline; coeditor of Humanizing Research: Decolonizing Qualitative Research (with Django Paris); Justice on Both Sides: Transforming Education Through Restorative Justice (Harvard Education Press), and Restorative Justice in the English Language Arts Classroom (with Hannah Graham and Rita Alfred). She is also the author of numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Review of Research in Education; Anthropology and Education Quarterly; International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education; Race, Ethnicity and Education; Research in the Teaching of English; and Harvard Educational Review.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword ix

Introduction Why We Need a Paradigm Shift in Schools Now 1

Chapter 1 Paradigm Shifting on Both Sides: The Art and Science of Making Things Right 15

Chapter 2 History, Race, Justice, and Language: Four Pedagogical Stances to Practice Restorative Justice 29

Chapter 3 "We Live in a Nation of Freedom": Learning with Students 51

Chapter 4 "There Was No Justice": Pedagogical Portraits of Educators 83

Chapter 5 When Some of Us Are Brave: Tensions and Challenges 117

Chapter 6 "How Do We Teach So That People Stop Killing?" The Case for Transformative Justice Teacher Education 143

Epilogue 159

Notes 163

Acknowledgments 181

About the author 185

Index 187

Editorial Reviews

"Winn makes a compelling case for the use of restorative justice practices in schools as ... as a way to disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline that has destroyed the lives of too many young people of color." —Zahra Bokhari, Philanthropy News Digest



"In a nation that is hyper-socialized to preserve the concepts of law, order, and punishment, especially with regard to Black and Brown bodies, shifting one’s mindset is no simple undertaking. However, Justice on Both Sides is an accessible guide that serves as both a 'compass' and a 'map' for PreK-12 educators, administrators, policymakers, and all others whose work has implications for education." —Darius O. Johnson and Dorinda J. Carter Andrews, Teachers College Record


"Winn shares the insights of teachers, students, administrators, support staff and parents who each look at restorative justice through their own lenses." —Bob Schultz, School Administrator


"This book serves as a compass for educators committed to justice and transformation. It compels us to resolve the inequities in school while we seek to support all students." —Nadira Baksh, Professionally Speaking


"[Justice on Both Sides] bridges the theory of restorative justice with teacher practice while highlighting tensions that practitioners are likely to encounter. For researchers, Winn’s book provides plenty of inspiration for future studies that examine the link between teachers’ perspectives on restorative justice and their enactment of it across school sites." —Education Review

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