Foregrounding diverse lived experiences and non-dominant forms of knowledge, this edited volume showcases ways in which narrating and sharing stories of pain and suffering can be engaged as critical pedagogy to challenge oppression and inequity in educational contexts.
The volume illustrates the need to consider both the act of narrating and the experience of bearing witness to narration to harness the full transformative potentials of counternarratives in disrupting oppressive practices. Chapters are divided into three parts - "Telling and Reliving Trauma as Pedagogy," "Pedagogies of Overcoming Silence," and "Forgetting as Pedagogy" - illustrating a range of relational pedagogical and methodological approaches, including journaling, poetry, and arts-based narrative inquiry.
The authors make the argument that the language of pain and suffering is universal, hence its potential as critical pedagogy for transformative and therapeutic teaching and learning. Readers are encouraged to reflect on their own lived experiences to constructively engage with their pain, suffering, and trauma. Focusing on trauma-informed non-hegemonic storytelling and transformative pedagogies, this volume will be of interest to students, faculty, scholars, and community members with an interest in advancing anti-oppressive and social justice education.
Author(s): Ardavan Eizadirad, Andrew B. Campbell, Steve Sider
Series: Routledge Research in Educational Equality and Diversity
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 232
City: New York
Cover
Endorsement Page
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Foreword
Contributors
Chapter 1 Centring Pedagogies of Pain and Suffering by Embracing Our Wounds and Scars
Part 1 Telling and Reliving Trauma as Pedagogy
Chapter 2 Cultivating Brave Spaces to Take Risks to Challenge Systemic Oppression
Chapter 3 Moving from Oppression to Opportunity: Bringing Light to Educational and Historical Contexts in Critical Pedagogy
Chapter 4 Storying Vulnerability: Creating Conditions for Generative Relationality in International Experiential Service Learning
Part 2 Pedagogies of Overcoming Silence
Chapter 5 Co-Composing Poetic and Arts-Based Narratives: Un-Silencing and Honouring Our Voices as Women Academics
Chapter 6 Self-Location as a Disruptive Counternarrative in Teaching and Learning
Chapter 7 Engaging in Ethical Discourse: An Autoethnography of a Black Student’s Journey to Self-Identity
Chapter 8 Passing the Grade: Experiences of Black Males in Secondary Schools in Ontario, Canada
Part 3 Forgetting as Pedagogy
Chapter 9 Sacred Tears: Indigenous Women’s Healing Journey of Mobilization for Educational Systemic Change
Chapter 10 Remembering Other Ways to Live: The Healing Energy that Flows from Sacred Ecology
Chapter 11 Easing Anxiety for Adults in Higher Education: Regaining Self within Subversive, Interdisciplinary Bibliotherapy, and Visual Journaling
Chapter 12 Poetic Justice: Healing and Disrupting Systemic Oppression in Education through Critical Pedagogy
Index
