Abstract/Notes: A STORY OF JUSTICE AND REDEMPTION By Bryan Stevenson Spiegel & Grau, 2014 Reprint edition, 2015 Paperback, $16 In 1960, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird was published. Child abuse, domestic violence, low cognitive skills, poverty, and darker skin color are inextricably linked to incarceration. Lives barely started are destroyed by abuse at the hands of parents and then again by an unjust system, finally terminating in prison or by the death penalty.

Language: English

ISSN: 1054-0040

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

Language: English

ISSN: 1054-0040

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

Language: English

ISSN: 0889-5643

Language: English

Abstract/Notes: In this 37th lecture of the 23rd International Course Amsterdam 1938, Montessori seeks to educate the emergent personality, the personality that finds its roots in nature’s norms evolving in an optimally prepared environment. When unobstructed, adolescent flow finds normality joyful and freeing; the resulting power and focus in life’s pursuits brings a high degree of self-realization at the end of adolescence, as contrasted with melancholy and death wish.

Language: English

ISSN: 1877-539X

Language: English

Language: English

Language: English