Pathways to Justice – Restoration, Reparations, and Reconstruction
The OJMCHE Museum Educator Fellowship program provides an opportunity for K – 12 educators interested in advancing their curriculum and instruction in genocide and civil rights education. The Fellowship is offered in partnership with Lewis & Clark Graduate School and participating educators may be eligible to receive graduate continuing credit for completing the program. Selected Fellows will participate in two virtual seminars with national scholars and attend a three-day conference held at the museum in Portland, Oregon from June 22 – 24, 2022. Following the learning sessions, Fellows will be responsible for writing a reflective essay that demonstrates their growth in the content and how they envision and plan to implement this learning.
This year’s program examines how individuals, communities, and society seek justice after harm has transpired. Justice is a complex concept. Based on our personal experiences and expectations with accountability, fairness, safety, and protection, we approach justice in different ways. In the United States, our justice system was designed to protect the rights of the accused, and rightly so. However, whether it be school suspensions or prison sentences our justice system addresses harm through punitive measures that in practice are fraught with problems tied to discrimination, bias, and inequity. Punitive measures demonstrate an incapacity to accomplish arguably two critical goals: first, the perpetrator of harm may never exercise moral self-examination and transformation; second, the victim of harm may never experience personal repair, exercise the capacity to forgive, or gain closure from trauma.
As such, Fellows’ learning will be centered around rehabilitative approaches to justice, including restoration, reparations, and reconstruction. Each one of these practices is rooted in repair and remedy, for the victim, perpetrator, and community at large. From interpersonal interactions to national and global responses to mass violence and genocide, this program offers educators an opportunity to study three approaches to justice and analyze when, how and why each one, or a combination of, have been applied to historical and contemporary events.
The following will be provided to Fellows
- Breakfast and lunch for all three days of the Fellowship
- One night of dinner
- Hotel accommodation + parking for Fellows who live more than 30 minutes away from OJMCHE
- Transportation and/or parking costs
- Books and other learning materials
Applications must be submitted by April 25, 2022.