Restorative Justice Summer Institute - 2012
Transforming Education through Peace and Reconciliation
A five-day, 3 credit UBC course offered through the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy and the Mir Centre for Peace, Selkirk College (Castlegar, BC).
This summer program will deepen your understanding of restorative justice and how its theory and practice relates to education and socialization of our children. This course will take restorative justice (most recently called transformative justice) far beyond the realm of victim and offender, to provide a framework for not only responding to conflict but also to building cultures of peace in our education system.
Learners will be enriched by local and global perspectives on issues of peace, reconciliation and conflict transformation that will inspire an enhanced ability to teach about peace and justice, and to implement programs and curriculum based on the tenets of transformative justice.
- Listen to our podcast interview with Dr. Linda Farr Darling speaking about this summer institute, and the opportunities her position as Eleanor Rix Professorship in Rural Teacher Education has offered her in supporting rural teachers.
- Download the Program Flyer.
Program Description
Revolving around the core theme of restorative justice, the course will include lectures, a workshop, and day trips to sites rich in culture and peacemaking, including a Doukhobor cultural centre and a World War II Japanese internment camp. Participants will work with an instructor who combines school-teaching experience with a background in global education initiatives for schools and/or communities.
The week will begin with a workshop by Dr. Brenda Morrison, co-director of SFU's Centre for Restorative Justice, titled Safe Schools and Communities: Restoring the Relational Base of Health and Well Being.
- Dr. Brenda Morrison is an internationally renowned expert on restorative justice – in schools, communities and the criminal justice system. Through the lens of restorative justice this workshop will build a framework and set of practical tools for re-affirming, repairing and re-building the social fabric that underpins safe schools and communities.
Throughout the program, participants will engage theory with lived experience and will come away with new ideas and practical tools for relating both peace and restorative justice to curriculum outcomes and teaching practice.
The presentations and field experiences of the opening two-day institute at the Mir Centre will serve as a foundation for three full-day classes designed to bring these experiences into a school context. Course content will be integrated with the BC social studies curriculum across grades K to 12, and assignments will involve finding resources and exploring the use of local history and culture to design relevant hands-on peace education experiences for students and to teach skills, attitudes and behaviors about how to live together more peacefully locally and globally.
Mir Centre for Peace
The program will be held at the Mir Centre for Peace, a beautiful retreat centre located in the West Kootenays - a region rich in culture and shaped by the histories of First Nations, Doukhobours, Japanese internees, war resisters, and Quakers. Surrounded by breathtaking scenery and walking trails, the centre is a half-hour drive from historic Nelson.
Accommodation:
Kekuli Residence at Selkirk College provides on-site accommodation, with a meal plan available. Participants must contact the residence directly to make arrangements (http://selkirk.ca/students/kootenay-life/kekulihouseresidence/summerstay/). Accommodation and meals are not included in the course fee.
Registration
There are two registration options:
For Credit:
EDCP 496 / 96A - Global Education and Curriculum (3)
Current UBC students should register through the Student Service Centre.
All non-UBC students wishing to take the course for credit must first be admitted to the UBC Faculty of Education. See admission information here (includes link to application form, and contact information for assistance).
Non-Credit:
To register as a non-credit participant for the full week program, or the one-day component only, contact Randy Janzen, Chair, Mir Centre for Peace.
