Building a Trauma-Responsive Educational Practice

Name: Building a Trauma-Responsive Educational Practice
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Building a Trauma-Responsive Educational PracticeLessons from a Corrections Classroom\nAuthor(s): Em Daniels\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367499631, 978-0367499631\nSynopsis\nThis timely manual presents a new perspective on teaching and learning focused on countering the impacts of trauma on adults ability to learn. Within its detailed and useful approaches, Daniels provides a road map for building a trauma-responsive teaching practice grounded in the principles of Trauma-Informed Care, and emphasizing the need for educators to develop a rigorous practice of self-care. Prison classrooms, in particular, demonstrate the intersectional and overlapping nature of systemic, historical, and individual traumatic experience. People who rediscover themselves as learners while in corrections classrooms have a unique and powerful perspective to bring to the work of ending mass incarceration, and the role of education an.