Full Description
By showcasing asset-based approaches inspired by individual reflection, research, and experience, this volume offers a fresh and timely perspective on grief and trauma within higher education and illustrates how these approaches can serve as opportunities for hope and allyship.
Featuring a broad range of contributions from scholars and professionals involved in educational research and academia, Humanizing Grief in Higher Education explores the varied ways in which students, scholars, and educators experience and navigate grief and trauma. Set into four distinct parts, chapters deploy personal narratives situated within interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research frameworks to illustrate how issues such as race, gender, socio-economic class, and politics intersect with experiences of personal and professional grief in the academy. A variety of intersectional fields of study - from positive psychology, counselling, feminist and queer theories, to trauma theory and disability studies - inform an interdisciplinary framework for processing traumatic experiences and finding ways to hope. These narrative explorations are positioned as key to developing a sense of hope amongst the grieving and those supporting them.
This text will benefit researchers, doctoral students, and academics in the fields of Higher Education, teacher education, trauma studies, and mental health education. Those interested in positive and educational psychology, as well as grief counselling in adults, will also enjoy this volume. Finally, this collection serves as a companion for those who find themselves grappling with losses, broadly defined.
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Intersecting Hope with Actionable Frameworks in the Academy: Allyhood in Grief
Nicole Sieben and Stephanie Anne Shelton
PART I: ALLYSHIP THROUGH WRITING AND LITERATURE
Chapter 2: Changing Cultural Constructions of Grief through the Shared Story:
Lessons from Disability Studies
Margaret Rose Torrell
Chapter 3: Agency in Writing: Managing Narratives of Trauma in Student Writing
Danielle Lee
Chapter 4: "Conceit Upon her Father": An Unintentional Confrontation with Grief and Hope in the English Classroom
Adam Wolfsdorf
Chapter 5: "The Grief that Fills One's Heart": Pairing Loss Narratives and Graphic Young Adult Literature
Shelbie Witte and Jennifer S. Dail
Chapter 6: Opening to the Hauntings of Grief and Mourning: Writing our Way towards Hope
Linda Henderson and Alison L. Black
PART II: COMMUNITIES OF HOPE AND HEALING
Chapter 7: Opportunities Lost and Found: A Gay Educator's Grief and Process of Hope
S. Adam Crawley
Chapter 8: Finding Hope Through Hope Agents and Narratives in Times of Mourning
Elsie Lindy Olan and Donita Grissom
Chapter 9: Collaborative Empathy as a Pathway to Hope: Grief and Teacher Education
Kia Jane Richmond and Cara Anderson
Chapter 10: "Why I Hate the Wind": Magical Realism and Re-Presenting Trauma Christopher Worthman
Chapter 11: It Is Contagious, Honey
Katherine C. Brown
PART III: GRIEVING FOR/WITH STUDENTS AND TEACHERS
Chapter 12: Hiding Behind Closed Classroom Doors and Opening up Space for Sharing Grief
Mandie B. Dunn
Chapter 13: Designing "Patterns" after Hurricane Sandy Uproots Structures
Josefa Pace
Chapter 14: Grieving when Students Make the News: Two Teachers' Reflections
Stacia L. Long
Chapter 15: When a Teacher Lost a Student: A Narrative Pathway through Grief
Nick Thompson
Chapter 16: Grief as the Pathway to Hope in the Teaching Profession
Leora Wolf-Prusan
Chapter 17: How Experiences with Student Grief Inform Our Practice: Teaching Teachers to Navigate Healing Processes
Katie Rybakova, Katahdin Cook Whitt, and Christina Christie
PART IV: FINDING HOPE THROUGH ACTIVISM
Chapter 18: My Father's Keeper: Pathway to Grief-Inspired Activism
Ericka Roland
Chapter 19: When the Music Changes, so does the Dance: Critical Racial Events as Told Through a Narrative Inquiry Beat
Kara M. Taylor
Chapter 20: Homeless Adolescents, Grief, and Advocacy for Others: Hope for the Future
Kate Shands Haq
Chapter 21: Visualizing Hope: Digital Storytelling with Refugee-background Children
Toby Emert
Chapter 22: Conclusion: Hope as an Ally to Grieving and Healing
Nicole Sieben and Stephanie Anne Shelton
