A Genealogy of Trauma & Literacy Education

• In Event: Trauma, Healing, and Socioemotional Development in Literacy Education

Abstract

The study of trauma has been institutionalized into a loose, somewhat amorphous field of popular media, scholars, perspectives, journals, conferences, curricula, and publications within and outside of literacy research. Contention surrounds the boundaries, scope, and content of "trauma studies" and the discourses embodied within them. Using a Foucauldian (1990) method of genealogy, I interrogate these relationships/discourses and explore the importance of why these matter to educational and literacy theorization.

Author

• Tracey Pyscher, Western Washington University