Radical Vulnerability: Teaching from the Margins When the World is on Fire

Session Submission Type: Workshop

Abstract

Every day marginalized students enter classrooms while simultaneously navigating environments rife with systemic violence, the decimation of civil rights, and hateful rhetoric fueled by hateful legislation.
As educators we teach in said environments, often without adequate support to acknowledge how we, too, are affected.
This workshop will engage in discussion and build a toolkit to ask the questions: How can we address trauma that affects us and our students? When is being vulnerable about our shared trauma pedagogically appropriate, or necessary for effective teaching? And how do cultivate safer learning spaces when it feels like the world is on fire?

Sub Unit

• General Conference / Special Sub-Theme: Pedagogies of Resistance and Hope: Teaching to Transgress

Presenters

• Mia Victoria Lawrie, University of Washington

• Ednie Kaeh Garrison, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo & Allan Hancock Community College