Trauma-Informed Pedagogy in Higher Education

Ernest Stromberg is Professor of Rhetoric and Communication at California State University, Monterey Bay, USA.

• 1. Introduction [Ernest Stromberg] Section I: Transforming the Institution and the Classroom 2. Considerations for Developing a First Year Seminar on Psychological Trauma [Christine Valdez] 3. Trauma Informed Pedagogy at the Grassroots: Building and Sustaining a Trauma Informed Movement at a Large Public Institution [Sarah Le Pichon and Steve Lundy] 4. Racial Trauma: Dismantling Anti-Black Racism in Classrooms and Academia [Vanessa Lopez-Littleton and Dennis Kombe] 5. When Embodied Histories Meet Institutional Stories: Trauma as Pedagogical Possibility [Whitney J. Archer, Carina M. Buzo Tipton, Cassandra L. Hall, and Emma L. Larkins] 6. Affective Solidarity and Trauma Informed Possibilities: A Comparative Analysis of the Classroom and the Clinic [Kriti Prasad and Pritha Prasad] 7. Trauma Informed Mindfulness Meditation in the College Classroom [Ernest Stromberg] 8. Examining Authority through Trauma: Reflections from Student to Teacher [Angela Moore] Section II: Reading and Writing to Recover and Heal 9. Trauma Together: Rethinking Collaborative Learning [Brynn Fitzsimmons] 10. Insights in Trauma Informed Pedagogy from the field of Bibliotherapy: Literary Trauma Studies and Creative Writing [Katarina Båth] 11. Trigger Warnings with Conscience: Presenting Texts about Sexual Assault with Respect [Rose Gubele] 12. LGBTQ+ Trauma Informed Pedagogy in a Transnational Context [Jason Lee, Beverley Hancock-Smith, Zara Hooley, and Eleanor McSherry]