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by Belinda Hopkins (Author), Michelle Stowe (Foreword by)
Relational and Restorative practice gives everyone in a school community - staff, students and their parents or carers, and other stake holders such as trustees - an equal voice, whatever their ethnicity, gender, socio-economic status, religion, ability status or sexual orientation . In this regard it is an effective way of creating a more socially just, inclusive learning environment.
Use Belinda Hopkins's simple 5:5:5 model, offering you a framework for thinking about how to create a consistent, coherent system that can support everyone in the school community and help your school to become more socially just. Find out what relational and restorative practice can do to help you understand and address the why behind children's behaviours and what can be done to create learning environments that meet the needs of all children. Critically, this book also offers evidence-based guidance on how to adapt principles and processes to suit the needs of individual children taking into consideration trauma-informed approaches, adverse childhood experiences, cultural, socio-economic and developmental factors.Author Biography
Belinda Hopkins is the Director of Transforming Conflict. She pioneered the use of restorative practice in schools across the UK during the early 2000's. Her first book 'Just Schools' (JKP 2004) has been an inspiration for many. She is both a trainer/consultant, a practitioner of relational and restorative practice and a coach/mentor for people working in this field. Belinda works all over Europe. She is a member of the European Forum for Restorative Justice Training Committee and their Restorative Schools Working Group.
