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Foregrounding diverse lived experiences and non-dominant forms of knowledge, this edited volume showcases ways in which narrating and sharing stories of pain and suffering can be engaged as critical pedagogy to challenge oppression and inequity in educational contexts.
List of contents
1. Centering Pedagogies of Pain and Suffering by Embracing our Wounds and Scars Part 1: Telling and Reliving Trauma as Pedagogy 2. Cultivating Brave Spaces to Take Risks to Challenge Systemic Oppression 3. Moving from Oppression to Opportunity: Bringing Light to Educational and Historical Contexts in Critical Pedagogy 4. Storying Vulnerability: Creating Conditions for Generative Relationality in International Experiential Service Learning Part 2: Pedagogies of Overcoming Silence 5. Co-Composing Poetic and Arts-Based Narratives: Un-Silencing and Honouring Our Voices as Women Academics 6. Self-Location as a Disruptive Counternarrative in Teaching and Learning 7. Engaging in Ethical Discourse: An Autoethnography of a Black Student’s Journey to Self-Identity 8. Passing the Grade: Experiences of Black Males in Secondary Schools in Ontario, Canada Part 3: Forgetting as Pedagogy 9. Sacred Tears: Indigenous Women’s Healing Journey of Mobilization for Educational Systemic Change 10. Remembering Other Ways to Live: The Healing Energy that Flows from Sacred Ecology 11. Easing Anxiety for Adults in Higher Education: Regaining Self within Subversive, Interdisciplinary Bibliotherapy, and Visual Journaling 12. Poetic Justice: Healing and Disrupting Systemic Oppression in Education through Critical Pedagogy
About the author
Ardavan Eizadirad is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Wilfrid Laurier University and an instructor at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is also the founder and director of EDIcation Consulting (www.edication.org) offering equity, diversity, and inclusion training to organizations.
Andrew B. Campbell is Adjunct Assistant Professor at Queen’s University in the Professional Master of Education Program and a faculty member at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, Canada. He has taught at all levels of the education system for the last 25 years in Jamaica, Bahamas, and Canada, and is also known as Dr. ABC (https://drabc.ca/).
Steve Sider is a Professor in the Faculty of Education at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. He is the past president of the Comparative and International Education Society of Canada and the current director of the Centre for Leading Research in Education at Wilfrid Laurier.
Summary
Foregrounding diverse lived experiences and non-dominant forms of knowledge, this edited volume showcases ways in which narrating and sharing stories of pain and suffering can be engaged as critical pedagogy to challenge oppression and inequity in educational contexts.
