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Talking Circles For Adolescent Girls In An Urban High School: A Restorative Practices Program For Building Friendships And Developing Emotional Literacy Skills, Martha Ann Schumacher
Talking Circles For Adolescent Girls In An Urban High School: A Restorative Practices Program For Building Friendships And Developing Emotional Literacy Skills, Martha Ann Schumacher
Wayne State University Dissertations
ABSTRACT
TALKING CIRCLES FOR ADOLESCENT GIRLS
IN AN URBAN HIGH SCHOOL: A RESTORATIVE PRACTCES' PROGRAM FOR BUILDING FRIENDHIPS AND DEVELOPING
EMOTIONAL LITERACY SKILLS
by
MARTHA ANN SCHUMACHER
DECEMBER 2012
ADVISOR: Dr. Loraleigh Keashly
MAJOR: Communication
DEGREE: Doctor of Philosophy
Restorative Practices and Restorative Justice programs in schools are a new and emerging field. Meeting in Circles to build community, resolve conflict, and learn interactively are core components of these programs. This ethnographic study, which took place February 2010 to December 2011, evaluates 12 small, out-of-classroom Talking Circles for 60 adolescent girls as part of a Restorative Practices program in an …