{"id":504799,"date":"2025-07-03T16:18:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T09:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pr-bangkok.com\/?p=504799"},"modified":"2025-07-03T16:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T09:18:08","slug":"bma-trains-teachers-to-foster-a-safe-and-compassionate-school-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pr-bangkok.com\/?p=504799","title":{"rendered":"BMA trains teachers to foster a safe and compassionate school environment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-504808\" src=\"https:\/\/pr-bangkok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/S__59482152_0-1-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pr-bangkok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/S__59482152_0-1-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pr-bangkok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/S__59482152_0-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pr-bangkok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/S__59482152_0-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pr-bangkok.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/S__59482152_0-1.jpg 1567w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(July 1, 2025) \u2013 Sanon Wangsrangboon, Deputy Governor of Bangkok, presided over the opening ceremony of the first batch of training workshops on restorative justice in educational settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The event was held at the Justice Design Studio, 2nd floor, Thailand Institute of Justice (TIJ), Laksi district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Deputy Governor commended the TIJ for its commitment to promoting the concept that justice is a shared responsibility and for initiating a campaign to raise awareness of restorative justice practices in both schools and the wider society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sanon highlighted that restorative justice offers teachers a constructive approach for managing conflict, rebuilding relationships, and fostering mutual understanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The approach emphasises empathy, accountability, and peaceful coexistence by encouraging open dialogue among all parties to express their needs, take responsibility for their actions, and work collaboratively towards reconciliation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis training programme for teachers from schools under the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) marks a significant step in integrating restorative justice into school conflict resolution,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt will also help prevent repeated acts of violence among students and reduce aggressive behaviour among the youth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the TIJ and the BMA, both institutions have launched a joint policy advocacy campaign to promote restorative justice in educational settings.<br>The initiative aims to establish BMA schools as model safe spaces, reduce violence against children, and achieve a zero dropout rate, with restorative justice serving as the main mechanism.<br>The programme will feature eight training sessions, each lasting two non-consecutive days, from July to August 2025. Each session will host 40 participants, including teachers and education personnel from BMA secondary schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The opening ceremony was also attended by Dr Piset Sa-ardyen, Executive Director of the TIJ, Asst Prof Adisorn Jantrasook, Dean of the Faculty of Learning Sciences and Education at Thammasat University, along with TIJ executives, trainers, and other relevant parties.<br><br>#GoodEducation #Bangkok #BMA #teachers #training #restorativejustice #schools #education<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(July 1, 2025) \u2013 Sanon Wangsrangboon, Deputy Governor o &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pr-bangkok.com\/?p=504799\" class=\"more-link\">\u0e2d\u0e48\u0e32\u0e19\u0e40\u0e1e\u0e34\u0e48\u0e21\u0e40\u0e15\u0e34\u0e21<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BMA trains teachers to foster a safe and compassionate school environment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":504809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eng0"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr-bangkok.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr-bangkok.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr-bangkok.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr-bangkok.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr-bangkok.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=504799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pr-bangkok.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504810,"href":"https:\/\/pr-bangkok.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504799\/revisions\/504810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr-bangkok.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/504809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr-bangkok.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=504799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr-bangkok.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=504799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr-bangkok.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=504799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}