 | Counternarratives of Pain and Suffering as Critical Pedagogy: Disrupting Oppression in Educational Contexts Subjects: Behavioral Sciences; Education; Multicultural Education; Sociology of Education; Mental Health; Education Policy & Politics; Trauma Studies; Psychoanalysis; Counseling; Education Policy; Foregrounding diverse lived experiences and non-dominant forms of knowledge, this edited volume showcases ways in which narrating and sharing stories of pain and suffering can be engaged as critical pedagogy to challenge oppression and inequity in educational contexts. The volume illustrates 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 in disrupting oppressive practices. Chapters are divided into three parts - "Telling and Reliving Trauma as Pedagogy," "Pedagogies of Overcoming Silence," and "Forgetting as Pedagogy" - illustrating a range of relational pedagogical and methodological approaches, including journaling, poetry, and arts-based narrative inquiry. The authors make the argument that the language of pain and suffering is universal, hence its potential as critical pedagogy for transformative and therapeutic teaching and learning. Readers are encouraged to reflect on their own lived experiences to constructively engage with their pain, suffering, and trauma. Focusing on trauma-informed non-hegemonic storytelling and transformative pedagogies, this volume will be of interest to students, faculty, scholars, and community members with an interest in advancing anti-oppressive and social justice education. Ardavan Eizadirad is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Wilfrid Laurier University and an instructor at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is also the founder and director of EDIcation Consulting (www.edication.org) offering equity, diversity, and inclusion training to organizations. Andrew B. Campbell is Adjunct Assistant Professor at Queen's University in the Professional Master of Education Program and a faculty member at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, Canada. He has taught at all levels of the education system for the last 25 years in Jamaica, Bahamas, and Canada, and is also known as Dr. ABC (https://drabc.ca/). Steve Sider is a Professor in the Faculty of Education at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. He is the past president of the Comparative and International Education Society of Canada and the current director of the Centre for Leading Research in Education at Wilfrid Laurier. |
