14.025 - (Re)Claiming Bodies Marked by Institutional Oppression and Trauma: Teachers and Youth Raise Their Voices

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Schooling has historically functioned as a mechanism of social ordering that has disenfranchised working class Communities of Color through educational denial and a school-to-prison pipeline, which criminalizes youth for non-violent infractions. With this context in mind, we consider the ways in which current neoliberal educational policies continue this legacy of trauma in the lives of youth, teachers, and community by examining the ways in which systematized oppression ‘marks’ the bodies of educators and youth; discussing the various dimensions of trauma that youth and educators experience in light of institutional policies that position them as insubordinate, incompetent and criminal; and presenting a theoretical/curricular framework focusing on how the Body may be reclaimed as a landscape of possibility and hope.

Sub Unit

• Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education / Division K - Section 4: Multicultural, Inclusive, and Social Justice Frameworks for Teaching and Teacher Education in PK-16+ Settings

Chair

• Lauren M. Anderson, Connecticut College

Papers

• "It's Not About Becoming a Better Educator": Negotiating Multiple Dimensions of Trauma at an F School - Katherine Crawford-Garrett, University of New Mexico; Rebecca M. Sanchez, University of New Mexico

• Under the Gun: (Re)Traumatizing the Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Well-Being of Incarcerated Youth - Shiv Raj Desai, University of New Mexico

• Curriculum of the Mestiza/o Body: Living and Learning in a Corporal Landscape of Resistance, Regeneration - Mia Sosa-Provencio, The University of New Mexico

Discussant

• Lindsay Perez Huber, California State University - Long Beach