Critical Pedagogy for Healing

This is the first book to explicitly link healing and wellness practices with critical pedagogy. Bringing together scholars from Brazil, Canada, Malta and the USA, the chapters combine critical pedagogy and social justice education to reorient the conversation around wellness in teaching and learning. Working against white Eurocentric narratives of wellness in schools which focus on the symptoms, not the causes, of society's sickness, the authors argues for a "soul revival" of education which tackles, head on, the causes of dis-ease in society, from institutional racism, colonialism, xenophobia and patriarchy. The contributors provide fresh perspectives that address short-term goals of wellness alongside long-term goals of healing in schools and society by attending to underlying causes of social sickness. The chapters bridge theory and practice, bringing diverse historical and contemporary philosophical discussions around wellness into contact with concrete examples of the interconnections between wellness, education, and social justice. Examples of topics covered include: Buddhist practices for healing, Black liberation theology, hip hop pedagogy, anxiety and vulnerability, art therapy and story-telling.

List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsIntroduction: Pathways toward a Soul Revival in Teaching and Learning, Tricia M. Kress (Molloy College, USA), Christopher Emdin (Teachers College, Columbia University, USA) and Robert Lake (Georgia Southern University, USA)Part I: Spirituality, Faith, and Hope 1. And Let the Church Say, "Amen": Racio-Spiritual Re-membering as a Pedagogy of Healing Jamila Lyiscott (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA) 2. Towards a Critical Pedagogy of Spirituality and Healing, Irwin Leopando (LaGuardia Community College, USA) 3. A Spirituality of Inclusion and Six Dispositions of Significance: Bringing Eternal Meanings to Our Pedagogical Practice James D. Kirylo (University of South Carolina, USA) 4. Pentacostal Pedagogy and the Rights of the Body as Restoration in Education, Christopher Emdin (Teachers College, Columbia University, USA) 5. Buddhist Practices for Embodied Awareness, Healing, and Racial Justice, Helen Kwah (New York University, USA)Part II: Physical & Mental Well-Being 6. Mindfully Running the Course(s): Self-Care as Critical Praxis, Tricia Kress and Jennifer Somma-Coughlin (Molloy College, USA) 7. Immanence and a Pedagogy of Vulnerability: Teaching with Anxiety and Panic Disorder, Kathryn Strom (California State University, USA) 8. In the 'Being' and the 'Doing': Teachers' Critical Embodied Pedagogies of Care, Victoria Restler (Rhode Island College, USA) 9. Healing in Collaboration with School Counselors: Hip Hop and Spoken Word Therapy, Ian Levy (Manhattan College, USA)10. Sexual Healing: Confronting Disembodiment in Public Schooling, Carolyne Ali-Khan and John W. White (University of North Florida, USA)Part III: Arts & Creativity 11. (In)Souling Music, Self Care And Empathic Resonance, Robert Lake (Georgia Southern University, USA) 12. Creating the Play Space: Human Encounters Explored through Theatre Processes, Isabelle Gatt (University of Malta, Malta) 13. "What Happens if I Open that Door?": Art, Truth-Telling and Healing in a Poetry Course for Prospective Teachers, Laura Apol (Michigan State University, USA) 14. The Distresses and Hopes of Beginning Teachers: Five Arts-Based Research Explorations, Gene Fellner (City University of New York, USA) 15. Committing Ourselves to Black Girl Joy: A Hip-Hop Feminist Approach, Damaris C. Dunn (University of Georgia, USA)Part IV: Community & Connection 16. Folding Cranes of Hope: Assembling Leadership through Critical Pedagogy, Robin Brandehoff (University of Colorado, USA)17. Healing Ourselves through Black Mothers' Wisdom, e alexander (Ohio State University, USA) 18. Between Wholeness and Restoration, dorothy vaandering, (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada) 19. Fraying Lives: Toward a Pedagogy of Healing, Gregory Tewksbury (Brooklyn College, USA) 20. An Autoethnographic Account: How Black Teacher-Coaches Counter-Narrate New Social Constructs to Inform Pedagogy for Healing, Alex Chisholm (University of Georgia, USA) Part V: Space, Place & Land 21. The Politics of a Revolutionary and Humanizing Praxis: The Story of Liberation, Victory and Regression in Tucson, Curtis Acosta (University of Arizona, USA)22. Schools for Liberation: Creating Leadership for a New World, David Greene and Janet Greene (Freedom School, USA)23. "The Gift of Setting Alight the Sparks of Hope in the Past": Ancestry and History in Pedagogical Praxis in the Brazilian Amazon, Inny Accioly, Benedito Alcântara, Aldinea Fernandes Monteiro, Aldenice Monteiro (Fluminense Federal University, Brazil)24. Thy Will Be Done: Radical Love as Self-Other Healing Praxis, Patricia Krueger-Henney and Perpetual Hayfron (University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA) 25. Deflecting the echoes of settler-colonialism: Stories of resilience and healing while working with Maya youth, Donna DeGennaro (University of North Carolina, Wilmington, USA) 26. Urban Nature: Reconciling our notions of nature and Relationships to Land in Contemporary North American Urban Landscapes, Jennifer D. Adams (University of Calgary, Canada)Afterword: Healing the Soft Tissue of Critical Pedagogues with a Radical Love, Shirley R. Steinberg (University of Calgary, Canada)ReferencesIndex