Humanizing Grief in Higher Education: Narratives of Allyship and Hope

This book explores how students, scholars, and educators experience and navigate grief and trauma in higher education, using personal narratives and an interdisciplinary framework to develop a sense of hope. It will benefit researchers, doctoral students, and academics in the fields of Higher Education, teacher education, trauma studies, and mental health education.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 188 pages
Publication date: 09 January 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive volume presents a novel and timely perspective on grief and trauma within higher education, highlighting how these experiences can be transformed into sources of hope and solidarity. Drawing from a diverse range of contributions from scholars and professionals engaged in educational research and academia, Humanizing Grief in Higher Education delves into the multifaceted ways in which students, scholars, and educators encounter and navigate grief and trauma. Organized into four distinct sections, the chapters employ personal narratives embedded within interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research frameworks to illustrate how issues such as race, gender, socioeconomic class, and politics intersect with personal and professional grief within the academic setting. A rich tapestry of intersectional fields of study, including positive psychology, counseling, feminist and queer theories, trauma theory, and disability studies, informs an interdisciplinary framework for processing traumatic experiences and fostering pathways to hope. These narrative explorations are positioned as vital in cultivating a sense of hope among those experiencing grief and those supporting them.

This text will be of immense value to researchers, doctoral students, and academics specializing in Higher Education, teacher education, trauma studies, and mental health education. Those with interests in positive and educational psychology, as well as grief counseling for adults, will also find this volume to be of great interest. Furthermore, this collection serves as a companion for individuals who are navigating the complexities of loss, broadly defined.

Weight: 246g
Dimension: 151 x 299 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367750794