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Reflections on lenses

Recently I introduced Najla El Mangoush, a Libyan lawyer, for her capstone presentation. Under my supervision, for her final project in her MA programme here at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), she has been researching the intersection between restorative justice and the traditional Solha process in her country. Her belief is that this indigenous tradition has restorative elements and that the concept of restorative justice might help to legitimate and strengthen this approach in Libya. She argues for a hybrid system that draws on the strengths of both the Solha tradition and the legal tradition. This was my last activity as a member of the teaching faculty in our programme. I am now retired from the active teaching faculty though still involved with our restorative justice institute. The night before I had a dream that certainly was triggered by this upcoming event. Someone had challenged me about the ‘elicitive’ pedagogy here at the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding. Instead, he said, I should be more authoritative, lecturing, telling people what is what, rather than engaging them in discussion and drawing ideas from them. I must have tried to take that advice and in my next snapshot I was shovelling horse manure onto the ground. As I awoke, I was struggling to till the manure into the ground because it did not seem to be effective just lying there in piles on top of the soil. My first reaction to the dream was that, in my pedagogical perspective, lecturing as an authoritative expert is indeed like shovelling manure; the symbolism seemed