“Liberating Our Hearts in Teaching and Learning”

• In Event: Teaching to Transgress: Crossing Epistemic Borders for the Love of Students

Abstract

In this presentation, I will discuss how personal care and growth has been vital to teaching another semester during a global pandemic as well as the significance of trauma-informed pedagogies—the difficult but urgent process of alchemizing individual pain into ways of creating community in the classroom, and the importance of sharing pieces of personal and scholarly content that energize us as educators. I share some of the tools I have picked up along my journey of growth and how those tools can inform connection and foster vulnerability in the classroom during times of grief.

Presenter

• Daniel Topete, California State University Los Angeles