Dress Rehearsals for Gun Violence

Confronting Trauma and Anxiety in America's Schools

AvKjersti VanSlyke-Briggs,Elizabeth A. Bloom

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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From voices in the field, Dress Rehearsals for Gun Violence: Confronting Trauma and Anxiety in America’s Schools considers how damaging fear and anxiety are for those who are in our schools every day in the United States and living with both the ever present threat of a school shooting and the continuous preparations for one. This book examines those impacted directly including not just students and teachers, but preservice teachers considering teaching as a profession, college professors, support staff, and librarians. This follow up book to A Relentless Threat: Scholars Respond to Teens on Weaponized School Violence, goes in depth into the human cost of violence by exploring the fear of potential violence in our schools and what may be done to lessen that trauma and anxiety. This book includes discussion on the very real impact of false alarms, the trauma and anxiety experienced by teachers, the risks and benefits of armed shooter training, the unique challenges of non-classroom spaces, using young adult literature as a tool for processing emotions with students, and the importance of teaching critical reading skills for evaluating how school shootings are portrayed in the media.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-07-01
Mått:154 x 218 x 9 mm
Vikt:181 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:114
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781475861563

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Kjersti VanSlyke-Briggs is professor of secondary education and educational technologies at the State University of New York, Oneonta.Elizabeth A. Bloom is professor of education and chair of the Education Program at Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY.They are the editors of Resisting Reform: Reclaiming Public Education through Grassroots Activism.

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As a companion to their edited volume A Relentless Threat, this collection from editors VanSlyke-Briggs and Bloom once again calls attention to the voices of those who have been living with the psychological and physiological wounds consequent to school-related violence. Dress Rehearsal for Gun Violence invites readers to look more deeply into the emotionally vulnerable space in which an individual’s covert responses to episodes of school shooting are often overlooked or disregarded. Each chapter serves as a platform to showcase a diverse range of trauma and demonstrates how the different responses to violence manifest uniquely across individuals who share similarly life-altering experiences. The contributors' voices reveal narratives filled with raw emotions that transcend a sense of urgency in recognizing the hidden and blatant triggers associated with the trauma of gun violence. This book should become a permanent reference in libraries serving scholars, practitioners, and families in search of a profound understanding of the ripple effects of school violence. Highly recommended. All levels.

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword: Raising Generation Mass ShootingMelissa MariettaIntroduction: Listening to Those on the InsideElizabeth A. BloomChapter 1. The Casualties You Don’t See: The Omnipresent Trauma of School ShootingsVincenzo GrecoChapter 2. Pearl Clutching and The Normalization of School Shootings in Young Adult LiteratureKjersti VanSlyke-Briggs, Sarah Rhodes, and Jenna TurnerChapter 3. We Should All Care: Preservice Teachers’ Perspectives on Gun ControlNicole WaidChapter 4. Teacher Trauma in the Age of School ViolenceFrank ThorntonChapter 5. School Ecosystems: Including Librarians in a Proactive Approach to Addressing School ShootingsSarah RhodesChapter 6. Resolving Bleak Futures: Following the Lead of Generation ZKjersti VanSlyke-BriggsAbout the EditorsAbout the Contributors