About this eTextbook
. The Vulnerable Heart of Literacy: Centering Trauma as Powerful Pedagogy What is trauma and what does it mean for the literacy curriculum? In this book, elementary teachers will learn how tolook inside classrooms and literacies across genres to see what can unfold when teachers are committed to compassionate, critical, and relational practice.
Weaving her own challenging experiences into chapters brimming with children’s writing and voices, Dutro emphasizes that issues of power and privilege matter centrally to how attention to trauma positions children. The book includes questions and prompts for discussion, reflection, and practice and describes pedagogies and strategies designed to provide opportunities for children to bring the varied experiences of life, including trauma, to their school literacies in positive, meaningful, and supported ways. “This stunning book about trauma interrogates the very notion.
Dutro excels at interweaving her stories with those of teachers and students and at challenging readers to find their way into the fabric. I recommend this book to teachers so that they might accept her challenge to explore and understand the importance of both witnessing and testimony in relation to trauma in literacy curriculum and pedagogy.
Publication details
- Author: Elizabeth Dutro
- Publisher: Teachers College Press
- eText ISBN: 9780807778081, 0807778087
- Print ISBN: 9780807763124, 0807763128
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