Addressing Social Trauma in and Through Schools: Humanizing, Restorative Justice, and Critical Hope Approaches

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This panel turns to research in the health sciences to inform a new paradigm for thinking about teachers and teaching, social trauma, and urban education. This robust framework provides a richer basis for understanding previously underexplored questions about how research can not only be critical and community responsive but how it might also help better account for the additional developmental demands youth and teachers in urban settings must negotiate. The driving research questions for this panel is, How can the health sciences and critical social theory complement research in urban education to provide a framework that facilitates healing around social trauma experienced by the spectrum of stakeholders so they can more fully thrive in schools?

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Division B - Section 4: People and Politics (The Who of Curriculum)

Chair

• David O. Stovall, University of Illinois at Chicago

Papers

• Let's Break Free: Towards a Humanizing Social and Emotional Learning - Patrick Camangian, University of San Francisco

• When Some of Us Are Brave: Tensions and Challenges in Transforming Justice and Education - Maisha T. Winn, University of California, Davis

• Fools, Foes, or Freedom: Which One Will We Feed? - Jeffrey M.R. Duncan-Andrade, San Francisco State University

Discussant

• Gloria J. Ladson-Billings, University of Wisconsin - Madison