Description: "This book applies the principles of restorative justice to literacy education. Restorative literacies are designed to help educators reach, repair, and restore the literacies of our most disenfranchised and disengaged students in all classrooms through the recognition and expansion of students' experiences and literacies they bring to school. Restorative literacies aim to create a community of care that involves students, teachers, administrators, student's families, and principals so that all students experience racially, culturally, linguistically, and economically responsive, authentic, and engaging instruction in multiple forms of literacies. The practice of restorative literacies focuses on building and strengthening positive relationships between the backgrounds and perspectives, as well as the variable skills, proficiencies, and fluencies, of readers, the multiple texts readers encounter, and the authors of such texts through an intentional system of response, repair, and restoration in an educational setting"--
Review Quotes:
"Those who take the time to explore this text will find themselves the beneficiary of the wealth that 'plurality of literacy' can yield. Those who take the time to apply Wolter's work will find themselves shedding ethnocentrism and opening a treasure trove of identities, communities, abilities, and literacies that students already own. Readers will discover not just how to begin the work of creating caring communities in schools, but also why restorative literacy is important for our students and ourselves as well."
-- "Teachers College Record"