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SUMMARY:Doing discipline differently: Re-claiming restorative justice as a
 n anti-colonising practice - Professor Wendy Drewery\, University of Waika
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CONTACT:Susannah Lacon
DESCRIPTION:English education and culture were embraced enthusiastically b
 y Māori\, the indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand\, in the nineteen
 th century.  Nearly two centuries later\, Māori youth are doing significa
 ntly less well than other students in our education system.  This is cause
  for concern and the New Zealand Government has implemented a range of res
 ponses\, including Restorative Approaches\, which originated partly in Mao
 ri meeting practices.  Whilst reporting a broad range of successes\, a rec
 ently concluded ESRC study raised a number of concerns about\, among other
  things\, wide variation in the purposes and quality of restorative practi
 ce in schools\, and confusion about what is restored.  In New Zealand\, sc
 hools that embraced restorative practice across their whole school culture
  have better results than those who use the practices simply as an approac
 h to wrong-doing.  These findings together suggest that the practices are 
 worth pursuing\, but both more complex theory and focus on transformative 
 practice are required. A social constructionist theoretical framework will
  be offered to explain how careful relationship practice can restore digni
 ty and respect to persons in their communities.  These practices need to b
 e reclaimed as an approach to both growing and restoring the “mana”\, 
 not only of disaffected students\, but of all students\, schools\, and tea
 chers too.  Education may be a developmental project\, but it should not b
 e a colonising one.\n\nWendy Drewery is Associate Professor and Associate 
 Dean Academic in the Faculty of Education at the University of Waikato in 
 Hamilton New Zealand.  She has an MA in Philosophy from the University of 
 Auckland\, a Diploma in Education Studies and a PhD in Developmental Psych
 ology from the University of Waikato. Her research interests are in analys
 is of conversation\, anti-colonising and respectful speaking\, and adult d
 evelopment and ageing.  She has worked on developing restorative practices
  for schools since 1999\, and has published widely in the area. Wendy teac
 hes a postgraduate programme in Restorative Practices in Education\, and c
 ontributes a paper on adult development and ageing to the Human Developmen
 t subject major. Previously she taught in the University of Waikato Counse
 lling Programme\, where she developed her interest in productive conversat
 ions. She is co-author of a successful text on lifespan human development.
  \n\nWhile in Cambridge as a Visiting Scholar she has been working with Dr
  Hilary Cremin to develop an international study that will re-claim the so
 cially transformative potential of restorative justice practices. Wendy wa
 s a contributor to the ESRC funded Seminar Series on Restorative Approache
 s to Conflict in Schools\, held by Dr Cremin and colleagues from Edinburgh
  and Nottingham. Dr Hilary Cremin is host to Professor Wendy Drewery from 
 the beginning of September until the end of October.
LOCATION:Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\
 , Cambridge\, Room 1S3
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