Grief as Remembrance: An Antidote to Institutional Trauma Across Educational Contexts

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Building upon a special issue in the Journal of Trauma Studies in Education titled “Grief as an Invitation to Heal: Extending Trauma-Informed Pedagogies, Research, and Praxis”, this interactive presidential session will name the “ways in which schools [and the academy] try to suppress, delegitimize, and punish grief, especially when felt and expressed by those most critical of and most impacted by systems of oppression” (Hannegan-Martinez & Cariaga, 2023). Drawing from literature across trauma-informed care, healing-centered engagement, women of color feminism, and settler colonialism, panelists will explore how Students and Teachers of Color, Black women educators, and Palestinian academics and students respectively counter institutional trauma, erasure of grief, and scholasticide with an intentional praxis of grief and remembrance, both locally and globally.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Stephanie Cariaga, California State University - Dominguez Hills

Papers

• If We Aren’t Grieving, We Aren’t Healing: Grief as a Trauma-Informed Praxis - Sharim Hannegan-Martinez, University of Michigan

• (Un)deniable Grief & Healing: Historicizing and Futuring Intersectional Grief Literacies Among Black Women Faculty - Sakeena Everett, University of Connecticut

• Resisting Erasure: Scholasticide during the Gaza Genocide - Chandni Desai, University of Toronto

Discussant

• Stephanie Cariaga, California State University - Dominguez Hills