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When We Unforget Trauma, Developmental Accountability Becomes Possible

Sun, April 12, 11:45am to 1:15pm PDT (11:45am to 1:15pm PDT), Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 306B

Session Type: Symposium

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Trauma causes us to forget difficult experiences even as it continues to animate our bodies, choices, actions, and narratives. When we unforget—individually and collectively—we are able to transform the future. This session explores the complexities of navigating socially expected developmental ecologies, like schools, that have the power to exacerbate risk or advance healing. Paper 1 presents life graph with cards (LGCM), a research method for working through deficits in autobiographical memory while collecting life course data. Papers 2 and 3 apply LGCM to explore institutional function and failure in relation to houselessness and incarceration. Paper 4 examines how the layering of COVID over both students’ and educators’ trauma histories is transforming the education workforce and its needs.

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