Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education
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Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education by Alex Shevrin Venet
Trauma-informed initiatives tend to focus on the challenging behaviours of students and ascribe them to circumstances that students are facing outside of school. This approach ignores the reality that inequity itself causes trauma, and that schools often heighten inequities when implementing trauma-informed practices that are not based in educational equity. In this fresh look at trauma-informed practice, Alex Shevrin Venet urges educators to shift equity to the centre as they consider policies and professional development. Using a framework of six principles for equity-centered trauma-informed education, Venet offers practical action steps that teachers and school leaders can take from any starting point, using the resources and influence at their disposal to make shifts in practice, pedagogy and policy. Overthrowing inequitable systems is a process, not an overnight change. But transformation is possible when educators work together and teachers can do more than they realise from within their own classrooms.
Alex Shevrin Venet is an educator, professional development facilitator, and writer. She teaches in-service teachers at Antioch University and Castleton University, and undergraduate students at the Community College of Vermont. She is a former teacher/leader at an alternative therapeutic school. She lives in Winooski, Vermont.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393714739 |
| ISBN 10 | 039371473X |
| Title | Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education |
| Author | Alex Shevrin Venet |
| Series | Equity And Social Justice In Education |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 2021-05-25 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
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