Race Talk in the Age of the Trigger Warning

Recognizing and Challenging Classroom Cultures of Silence

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

AvMara Lee Grayson

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To generate opportunities for transformative learning, educators must create learning environments that help students feel safe and encourage them to grapple with potentially difficult material. The trigger warning, a brief statement information students of potential distressing or re-traumatizing content, has been offered as a way to do just that, but this practice is neither as effective nor as equitable as it may seem. Intentionally or indirectly, the trigger warning limits the extent to which students are encouraged to engage in transformative critical conversations and reinforces the culture of silence that prevails in many educational spaces. Emerging as a response to trauma amid an educational environment that professes student-responsiveness and celebrates diversity yet perpetuates the marginalization of many of the bodies in the classroom, the trigger warning is not the problem – but it is not the solution either. What does this mean for the faculty members teaching this new generation of college students? And the teachers who find this generation’s younger siblings in their high school classrooms? Drawing upon original research, Mara Lee Grayson tracks the rise of the trigger warning within historical and contemporary educational contexts; explores its potentialities, limitations, and abuses as praxis; and offers curricular suggestions for high school and college instructors seeking to implement equitable, antiracist pedagogies that simultaneously encourage students’ well-being, provoke intellectual and emotional growth, and challenge the cultures of silence that maintain inequity on school campuses.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-03-20
Mått160 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt485 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor210
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781475851601

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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Trigger Warning as ApologiaChapter 1: Racism, Antiracism, and Education: Classroom Spaces as MicrocosmsChapter 2: The Rise of the Trigger WarningChapter 3: Speaking Truth to Trauma: Schooling and Suffering in the United StatesChapter 4: Academic Discourse and the Inequity of the Politeness ProtocolChapter 5:Coping in the Classroom: Emotions and EducationChapter 6: Reading Lives, Writing Lives: Languaging and Counternarrating TraumaChapter 7: Career Considerations: Managing Challenges to Emotional Health and Academic FreedomBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

How can educators honor the cultural, linguistic, and social history of their students and also challenge them to reflect and consider the experiences of others knowing that some topics may evoke painful memories or imaginations? Teaching in culturally diverse classrooms, being sensitive to the unsettling nature of the homophobic, white male supremacy narrative in the United States, some educators use trigger statements in hopes of avoiding emotional or psychological trauma during class discussion. We welcome Dr. Mara Lee Grayson’s book that exposes and composes, explains, explores and expands our thinking about social, political, racial, cultural and gender issues that influence what and how we teach. Avowing that valuable learning occurs in conversations that disrupt and disturb one’s thinking, Dr. Grayson urges us to weigh the cost, then persist and design lessons that cultivate thoughtful, nurturing learning communities and explore equitable curricula with the students in our classrooms.