Embracing Trauma in the Classroom Tools for Transformative Teaching and Learning

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Embracing Trauma in the Classroom articulates a framework for understanding trauma not as a merely biological or individual reality but as a social production that is inseparable from systems of power and oppression. Drawing from social theorists educators and on-the-ground activists this book considers how a politically conscious understanding of trauma rooted in the lived experiences of oppressed and dehumanized people can trouble and reform social justice education. Moving between theory practice and experience Embracing Trauma in the Classroom queries how social justice educators can move forward at a time when the world feels confused and classrooms are under attack. Trauma doesn’t get…