Critical Pedagogy for Healing : Paths Beyond 'Wellness,' Toward a Soul Revival of Teaching and Learning

"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 and xenophobia to Christo-centrism 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"-- Provided by publisher Introduction, Tricia M. Kress (Molloy College, USA), Christopher Emdin (Teachers College, Columbia University, USA), Robert Lake (Georgia Southern University, USA) 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. Urban Science Education for Soul Healing, Christopher Emdin (Teachers College, Columbia University, USA) -- 5. Buddhist Practices for Embodied Awareness, Healing, and Racial Justice, Helen Kwah (New York University, USA) II: Physical and Mental Well-Being -- 6. Mindfully Running the Course(s): Self-Care as Critical Praxis, T ricia 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. Folding Cranes of Hope: Assembling Leadership through Critical Pedagogy, Robin Brandehoff (University of Colorado, USA) -- 9. In the 'Being' and the 'Doing': Teachers' Critical Embodied Pedagogies of Care, Victoria Restler (Rhode Island College, USA) -- 10. Healing in Collaboration with School Counselors: Hip Hop and Spoken Word Therapy , Ian Levy (Manhattan College, USA) 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 Dunn (University of Georgia, USA) IV: Community and Connection -- 16. Healing Ourselves through Black Mothers' Wisdom, e alexander (Ohio State University) -- 17. Between Wholeness and Restoration, Dorothy Vaandering, (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada) -- 18. Fraying Lives: Toward a Pedagogy of Healing, Gregory Tewksbury (Brooklyn College, USA) -- 19. Stumbling Upon Wellness: Hurricanes, Pickup Trucks, & Hijabs: Is Curriculum Implicated?, Shirley R. Steinberg (University of Calgary, USA) -- 20. Communal Healing from the Court to the Classroom, Alex Chisholm (University of Georgia, USA) 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 & 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 Alc ́ntara, Aldinea Fernandes Monteiro, Aldenice Monteiro (Fluminense Federal University, Brazil) -- 24. Thy Will Be Done: Radical Love as Self-Other Healing Praxis, Patricia Krueger-Henney & Perpetual Hayfron (University of Massachusetts Boston -- 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) -- References -- Index Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents Figures Contributors Introduction: Pathways toward a Soul Revival Part I Spirituality, Faith, and Hope 1 And Let the Church Say “Amen”: Racio-spiritual Re-membering as a Pedagogy of Healing (Jamila J. Lyiscott) 2 Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Spirituality and Healing ( Irwin Leopando) 3 A Spirituality of Inclusion and Six Dispositions of Significance: (James D. Kirylo) 4 Pentecostal Pedagogy and the Rights of the Body as Restoration in Education (Christopher Emdin) 5 Embodiment and Buddhist Practices for Racial Healing and Social Justice (Helen Kwah) Part II Physical and Mental Well-Being 6 Mindfully Running the Course(s): Self-Care as Critical Praxis (Tricia M. Kress and Jennifer Somma-Coughlin) 7 Immanence and a Pedagogy of Vulnerability: Teaching with Anxiety and Panic Disorder (Kathryn Strom) 8 In the “Being” and the “Doing”: Teachers’ Critical Embodied Pedagogies of Care (Victoria Restler) 9 Healing in Collaboration with School Counselors: Hip-Hop and Spoken Word Therapy (Ian P. Levy) 10 Sexual Healing: Confronting Disembodiment in Public Schooling (Carolyne Ali-Khan and John Wesley White) Part III Arts and Creativity 11 Songs in the Key of Healing Hope: Listening as Soul Care (Robert Lake) 12 Creating the Play Space: Human Encounters Explored through Theater Processes (Isabelle Gatt) 13 “What Happens If I Open That Door?”: (Laura Apol) 14 The Distresses and Hopes of Beginning Teachers: Five Arts-Based Research Explorations (Gene Fellner) 15 Committing to Black Girl Joy in the Social Studies Classroom: (Damaris C. Dunn) Part IV Community and Connection 16 Folding Cranes of Hope: Assembling Leadership through Critical Pedagogy (Robin Brandehoff) 17 The Elders’ Pedagogy: Teaching as Survivance in the Academy (e alexander) 18 Between Wholeness and Restoration (dorothy vaandering) 19 Fraying Lives: Toward a Pedagogy of Healing (Gregory Tewksbury) 20 An Autoethnographic Account: How Black Teacher-Coaches Counter-Narrate New Social Constructs to Inform Pedagogy for Healing (Alex Chisholm) Part V Space, Place, and Land 21 The Politics of a Revolutionary and Humanizing Praxis: (Curtis Acosta) 22 Schools for Liberation: Creating Leadership for a New World (David S. Greene and Janet Wells Greene) 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, Aldineia Fernandes Monteiro, and Aldenice Monteiro) 24 Thy Will Be Done: Radical Love as Self-Other Healing Praxis (Patricia Krueger-Henney and Perpetual Anastasia Hayfron) 25 Deflecting the Echoes of Settler-Colonialism: Resilience and Healing While Working with Maya Youth (Donna DeGennaro) 26 Healing in Urban Nature: On Place, Identity, and Land Relationships (Jennifer D. Adams) Afterword: (Shirley R. Steinberg) References Index