If Elephants Could Talk: Exploring the Emotional Jungle of Racial Literacy in Schools

• In Event: Social and Emotional Learning SIG Business Meeting and Keynote

Abstract

Schools are places where racial conflicts remain hidden at the expense of a healthy school climate and the well-being of students of color. Most schools fail to act on racial micro-aggressions because the stress of negotiating such conflicts is extremely high. The framing of racial literacy as the learning of strategies necessary to read, recast, and resolve racially stressful encounters is the focus of this talk.

Author

• Howard C. Stevenson, University of Pennsylvania