Double-Minded Discipline: Leveraging the "Community" for Restorative and Punitive Discipline Practices in Schools

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Abstract

This study offers an examination of a school that operationalizes both punitive (in school security officers) and restorative practices (conflict counselors/facilitators). Moreover, both initiatives are community-based approaches, with the security officers and facilitators being deliberately selected from the surrounding community. This study occurred as an Autoethnography from the perspective of a restorative justice facilitator that worked very closely with the security officers. The research site is a medium sized Midwest high school with a diverse student population.

Author

• Alounso Antonio Gilzene, Florida State University