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Publication Date: 2023
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Risky Teaching: Developing a Trauma-Informed Pedagogy for Higher Education
Harrison, Neil; Burke, Jacqueline; Clarke, Ivan
Teaching in Higher Education, v28 n1 p180-194 2023
This paper presents the results of a three-year study of the impacts of teaching about the experiences of trauma on students studying to become teachers. The project's overarching objective is to develop an effective trauma-informed pedagogy that can support students who learn about the experiences of the 'Stolen Generations', the Holocaust, wars, and genocide. Following a presentation from a member of the Stolen Generations, students reported strong emotional impacts, indicating heightened arousal and defensive dissociation. Results indicated that effective teaching about the experiences of trauma must be accompanied by management processes that will mitigate the potential detrimental emotional impacts on such learning. We conclude that the reflexive power of narrative can implicate the student in her or his own life, as well as in the lives of others. Of critical importance is a recognition that both Indigenous and non-Indigenous lives are bound to one another in contemporary Australia.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Trauma Informed Approach, Trauma, Jews, Death, War, Crime, Student Attitudes, Emotional Response, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Indigenous Populations, History
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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