The Vulnerable Heart of Literacy: Centering Trauma as Powerful Pedagogy

.The Vulnerable Heart of Literacy: Centering Trauma as Powerful PedagogyWhat 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.”—Mollie Blackburn, The Ohio State University_x000B_The Vulnerable Heart of Literacy: Centering Trauma as Powerful Pedagogy is written by Elizabeth Dutro and published by Teachers College Press. ISBNs for The Vulnerable Heart of Literacy: Centering Trauma as Powerful Pedagogy are 9780807778081, 0807778087 and the print ISBNs are 9780807763124, 0807763128.