Counternarratives of Pain and Suffering as Critical Pedagogy: Disrupting Oppression in Educational Contexts

This edited volume explores how narrating and sharing stories of pain and suffering can be used as critical pedagogy to challenge oppression and inequity in educational contexts. It highlights the need to consider both the act of narrating and the experience of bearing witness to narration to harness the full transformative potentials of counternarratives. Chapters are divided into three parts, illustrating a range of relational pedagogical and methodological approaches, such as journaling, poetry, and arts-based narrative inquiry. The authors argue that the language of pain and suffering is universal, making it a powerful tool for transformative and therapeutic teaching and learning. Readers are encouraged to reflect on their own lived experiences to engage constructively with their pain, suffering, and trauma.

Format: Hardback
Length: 212 pages
Publication date: 04 July 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This edited collection highlights the significance of foregrounding diverse lived experiences and non-dominant forms of knowledge in educational contexts as a means to challenge oppression and inequity. By exploring the power of narrating and sharing stories of pain and suffering as critical pedagogy, the volume demonstrates the need to consider both the act of narrating and the experience of bearing witness to narration. The chapters are organized into three sections: Telling and Reliving Trauma as Pedagogy, Pedagogies of Overcoming Silence, and Forgetting as Pedagogy. These sections showcase a diverse range of relational pedagogical and methodological approaches, such as journaling, poetry, and arts-based narrative inquiry. The authors argue that the language of pain and suffering is universal, making it a powerful tool for transformative and therapeutic teaching and learning. The volume encourages readers to reflect on their own lived experiences and engage constructively with their pain, suffering, and trauma. With a focus on trauma-informed non-hegemonic storytelling and transformative pedagogies, this collection is of interest to students, faculty, scholars, and community members who are committed to advancing anti-oppressive and social justice education.

Weight: 589g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032070858