What Is Trauma? A Review of the Literature Toward Critical Compassion in "Trauma-Informed Schools"

• In Event: Sheraton Roundtable Session 20
  In Roundtable Session: Language of and Within Policies and Practices

Abstract

In this paper, we conduct a review of the literature on trauma and schools that address the following: 1.) discusses scholarship, key policy and practice texts, and centers of activity; 2.) reviews scholarship on trauma within and outside of education that is grounded in critical theories of race, class, gender, and sexuality and located primarily in humanities disciplines; 3) examines these literatures in relation to each other to argue for the crucial and often missing critical perspectives in policy and practice related to trauma in K-12 schools. The paper ends by research that provides examples of practice that approaches trauma in classrooms through critical theoretical perspectives.

Authors

• Elizabeth M. Dutro, University of Colorado Boulder

• Mary Rose Kelly, University of Colorado - Boulder