Developmental Adversity Education: Issues of Intersectionality and Trust

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Abstract

As our understanding of developmental adversity--adversities, traumas and significant stressors sufficient to alter brains, bodies and the developmental trajectory--has burgeoned over the past 25 years, a specialized field of workforce development has emerged. This thematic analysis of interviews is focused on questions related to the needs and experiences of learners and communities exposed to genocide, ethnocide, enslavement and/or eugenics. The authors find that developmental adversity may lead to intersectionality, that is, multiple marginalization based on features of identity. Developmental adversity education must address this issue to avoid reifying existing disproportionalities or radicalized positions,

Author

• Krista L. Goldstine-Cole, University of Montana