Hope for the embattled language classroom : pedagogies for well-being and trauma healing

"Learning, as it is being increasingly recognized, is centrally predicated upon students' wellbeing. Research findings indicate that in the instances of wounding and trauma, students' capacity and ability to learn can be severely compromised. This understanding applies particularly to...

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Main Author Kanna, Olivia (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing Inc., 2022.
SeriesTransforming education for the future.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806602506
DOI10.1108/9781648028588
Physical Description1 online resource (212 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Nowhere to call home: The trauma of displacement
  • Chapter 2. The silent scream of trauma
  • Chapter 3. Critical language pedagogies for empowerment and social change
  • Chapter 4. Relating pedagogy to trauma
  • Chapter 5. Language education policies, teachers, and the ethics of care
  • Chapter 6. Trauma and healing in the language classroom through contemplative pedagogies
  • Chapter 7. Buddhism as brain practice and its role in education
  • Chapter 8. Epilogue. Appendix: Trauma interventions: A mini module for teachers. References. about the author.