Becoming an Everyday Changemaker

Healing and Justice At School
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-59709-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 418 g

Reihe: Equity and Social Justice in Education Series

Educators with a vision for more equitable, caring schools often struggle with where to begin. I’m just one teacher, where can I start to make change? Is it even possible? How do I do this within current constraints?

In this new book, bestselling author Alex Shevrin Venet empowers everyday changemakers by showing how equity-centered trauma-informed practices can guide our approach to school change. Unlike other books on social justice, this powerful resource doesn’t tell you which changes to implement; instead, it focuses on helping you develop the skills, strategies, and tools for making change meaningful and effective.

Topics include change opportunities and why trauma makes change harder; skills for navigating the change journey such as building relationships, working from strengths, and navigating many streams of information; and sustainable structures for lasting change. Throughout, there are reflection questions to use as conversation-starters with fellow changemakers, as well as Rest Stops so you can pause and process what you are thinking about and learning. This book will help you start your change journey now, putting you and your students on the path to equity, justice, and healing.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shevrin Venet, Alex

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Understanding Change  1. How We Move Through Change Matters  2. Why Trauma Makes Change Hard(er)  3. Change Opportunities  4. Dreaming a Vision for Schools  Part II: Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Skills for Navigating the Change Journey  5. both/and  6. Everything in Relationship  7. Slowing Down  8. Working from Strengths  9. Tuning in to Many Streams of Information  Part III: Sustainable Structures for Lasting Change  10. Building a Foundation of Care  11. Anticipating Change and Crisis  12. Staying in Community through the Challenges

Über Autor(innen)

Alex Shevrin Venet is an educator, professional development facilitator, and writer. She is a teacher educator at the graduate level. Her teaching experience includes roles as a teacher/leader at an alternative therapeutic middle and high school, a community college instructor, and an elementary after-school teacher. She lives in Winooski, Vermont.