Abstract/Notes: This chapter describes the development and implementation of a programme providing higher and continuing education for imprisoned women in Hawai‘i. The purpose of the chapter is to show how the programme, which was based on principles of restorative justice and peace education, connects to and illustrates peace psychology. The programme consists of educational and restorative components. The education component provides women with opportunities to increase self-efficacy and personal agency. The project design motivates inner and relational peace by applying Montessori’s peace education and cooperative learning theories. The restorative re-entry planning process increases respect, empathy, and redemption. The value of respect advanced by Montessori and restorative justice is embedded in the project. Through cooperative learning and restorative re-entry planning practices, the women build supportive and peaceful relationships both internally and relationally to help decrease the structural violence that they have experienced. This chapter describes research supporting education for incarcerated women to address structural violence. The chapter includes an explanation of concepts and applications of cooperative learning and restorative re-entry planning circles and discusses their effectiveness in generating inner and relational peace. This chapter describes how education can increase incarcerated women’s personal agency, self-efficacy, and confidence, creating inner and relational peace, leading to successful re-entry and decreased domestic violence. The program addresses the connection between lack of personal agency and domestic violence, problems shared by many women, incarcerated and otherwise, throughout the world. The programme, created and conducted in Hawai‘i, could be replicated by other correctional institutions.

Language: English

Published: Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2022

ISBN: 978-3-031-13101-1

Series: Peace Psychology Book Series

Abstract/Notes: "The Association Montessori Internationale in organizing its sixth Congress on the theme "Educate for Peace" did not intend to depart from its aim of protecting and illustrating the personality of the child in order to enter the political struggle. Our effort is to draw the...

Language: English

Language: English

Abstract/Notes: This purpose of this action research project was created to study the effects of a peace curriculum and how it can help mitigate a pandemic or a traumatic societal event. The study took place in a public Montessori School located in the Midwest. There was a total of 15 children in the classroom that consisted of both pre-k and kindergarten aged children. This was a six- week study that included a peace curriculum, strategies, and tools for children to gain an understanding of peace and how it can be achieved during traumatic or stressful situations. The Peace Curriculum included discussions on natural disasters and our current COVID-19 virus as means to familiarize traumatic events and the use of coping strategies in promoting self-care. The children were provided with different group activities, strategies, and techniques to use, such as breathing techniques, visualization, yoga/movement, and discussions on peacemakers and how we all have the power to make a difference in the world and become global citizens. Quantitative and qualitative data collections were used to both determine their understanding of their emotions and develop ways to find their inner peace, peacemaking and peace keeping skills. The results showed that the children developed an awareness of others, their environment, and their abilities to be change agents and peacemakers. The outcome proved to have been effective providing children with an environment where they feel safe to share their thoughts and apply the strategies when coping with their own traumatic experiences.

Language: English

Published: River Falls, Wisconsin, 2021

Language: Italian

Published: Trento, Italy: Erickson, 2019

ISBN: 978-88-590-2042-4 88-590-2042-5

Language: Italian

Published: Trento, Italy: Erickson, 2019

ISBN: 978-88-590-2042-4 88-590-2042-5

Language: Italian

Published: Trento, Italy: Erickson, 2019

ISBN: 978-88-590-2042-4 88-590-2042-5

Language: Italian

Published: Trento, Italy: Erickson, 2019

ISBN: 978-88-590-2042-4 88-590-2042-5

Language: Italian

Published: Trento, Italy: Erickson, 2019

ISBN: 978-88-590-2042-4 88-590-2042-5

Abstract/Notes: Il libro indaga un aspetto spesso trascurato e però centrale nella figura e nell'opera di Maria Montessori: l'afflato utopico. I contributi di apertura cercano di restituire un quadro d'insieme dell'«utopia montessoriana», mentre i saggi successivi esplorano, in modo attento, le diverse direzioni della riflessione della studiosa su tale terreno: la pace, l'antiautoritarismo, i diritti dell'infanzia, l'emancipazione femminile, l'ecologia cosmica, ecc. Si tratta di linee di riflessione preziose, tanto più a fronte dell'odierna tendenza a vedere l'educazione come un modo per coltivare le competenze necessarie alla crescita economica e all'inserimento nel mondo del lavoro e ― particolarmente per quando riguarda l'infanzia ― a considerare la scuola da un punto di vista neo-custodialista, come un parcheggio in cui i genitori possono lasciare tranquillamente i figli. Rispetto a questa deriva utilitarista, Maria Montessori propone, invece, una più elevata ambizione: costruire attraverso l'educazione l'«uomo nuovo» per un mondo nuovo. [The book investigates an often overlooked but central aspect in the figure and work of Maria Montessori: the utopian inspiration. The opening contributions try to restore an overall picture of the "Montessori utopia", while the following essays carefully explore the different directions of the scholar's reflection on this terrain: peace, anti-authoritarianism, the rights of childhood, women's emancipation, cosmic ecology, etc. These are precious lines of reflection, all the more so in the face of today's tendency to see education as a way to cultivate the skills necessary for economic growth and integration into the world of work and - particularly when it comes to childhood - to consider the school from a neo-custodial point of view, as a parking lot where parents can safely leave their children. Compared to this utilitarian drift, Maria Montessori instead proposes a higher ambition: to build the "new man" for a new world through education.]

Language: Italian

Published: Trento, Italy: Erickson, 2019

ISBN: 978-88-590-2042-4 88-590-2042-5