TY - CHAP
T1 - NAVIGATING TENSIONS AND CONFRONTATIONS
T2 - Opportunities for Social Justice Dialogues in the Classroom
AU - Fuentes, Milton
AU - Quiros, Laura
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2025 selection and editorial matter, Anatasia S. Kim, Miguel E. Gallardo, and Sherri A. Taylor; individual chapters, the contributors.
PY - 2025/1/1
Y1 - 2025/1/1
N2 - In this chapter, we utilize a trauma-informed framework for addressing tensions and confrontations around social justice dialogues in the classroom. Specifically, we explore how safety, trustworthiness, empowerment, collaboration, and choice are actualized in our spaces to address inquiries, promote consciousness, and foster liberation. Additionally, we see tensions and confrontations as opportunities to deepen our classroom communities and re-envision our pedagogy. Through this reframe, we invite educators to set an optimal tone early, build community, lean into conflict, promote wellness, and celebrate joy. We share our positionalities and pepper the chapter with poignant examples from our own teaching. We close with resources to embrace and foster cultural humility as well as 12 small teachings for transformative social justice gains.
AB - In this chapter, we utilize a trauma-informed framework for addressing tensions and confrontations around social justice dialogues in the classroom. Specifically, we explore how safety, trustworthiness, empowerment, collaboration, and choice are actualized in our spaces to address inquiries, promote consciousness, and foster liberation. Additionally, we see tensions and confrontations as opportunities to deepen our classroom communities and re-envision our pedagogy. Through this reframe, we invite educators to set an optimal tone early, build community, lean into conflict, promote wellness, and celebrate joy. We share our positionalities and pepper the chapter with poignant examples from our own teaching. We close with resources to embrace and foster cultural humility as well as 12 small teachings for transformative social justice gains.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105008854938
U2 - 10.4324/9781003343035-9
DO - 10.4324/9781003343035-9
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:105008854938
SN - 9781032380087
SP - 165
EP - 183
BT - Cultivating Equitable and Inclusive Conversations in Higher Education
PB - Taylor and Francis
ER -