Full Description
From voices in the field, Dress Rehearsals for Gun Violence: Confronting Trauma and Anxiety in America's Schools considers how damaging fear and anxiety are for those who are in our schools every day in the United States and living with both the ever present threat of a school shooting and the continuous preparations for one. This book examines those impacted directly including not just students and teachers, but preservice teachers considering teaching as a profession, college professors, support staff, and librarians. This follow up book to A Relentless Threat: Scholars Respond to Teens on Weaponized School Violence, goes in depth into the human cost of violence by exploring the fear of potential violence in our schools and what may be done to lessen that trauma and anxiety. This book includes discussion on the very real impact of false alarms, the trauma and anxiety experienced by teachers, the risks and benefits of armed shooter training, the unique challenges of non-classroom spaces, using young adult literature as a tool for processing emotions with students, and the importance of teaching critical reading skills for evaluating how school shootings are portrayed in the media.
Contents
Foreword: Raising Generation Mass Shooting
Melissa Marietta
Introduction: Listening to Those on the InsideElizabeth A. BloomChapter 1. The Casualties You Don't See: The Omnipresent Trauma of School ShootingsVincenzo GrecoChapter 2. Pearl Clutching and The Normalization of School Shootings in Young Adult Literature
Kjersti VanSlyke-Briggs, Sarah Rhodes, and Jenna Turner
Chapter 3. We Should All Care: Preservice Teachers' Perspectives on Gun Control
Nicole Waid
Chapter 4. Teacher Trauma in the Age of School Violence
Frank Thornton
Chapter 5. School Ecosystems: Including Librarians in a Proactive Approach to Addressing School Shootings
Sarah RhodesChapter 6. Resolving Bleak Futures: Following the Lead of Generation ZKjersti VanSlyke-BriggsAbout the EditorsAbout the Contributors
